Glue work is still harmful in the age of AI

LLM-written code has not made glue work more valuable; it has made most of it less necessary. AI agents let one engineer handle projects that once needed a small team, cutting coordination meetings, while fewer junior hires and LLM-generated write-only reports remove other glue tasks. The author still warns engineers not to delegate peer communication to an LLM or become "the glue work person."