Middle Management Is a Coordination Layer. Agents Eat It.
Pull up the calendar of any middle manager and look at what actually fills it. Standups to collect status. Decks that roll the team’s numbers up a level. Sync meetings to reconcile what one group is doing against what another group thinks it’s doing. Escalations routed up, priorities routed down. Strip away the title and the org-chart box, and the job is mostly a data pipeline made of meetings — pull from the front line, normalize, flag what looks off, push a summary upward.