You spend more of the week directing systems than writing code, and nobody has handed you a title for it. The work changed; the org chart did not.
Your Next Job Title is the career book for the person already doing this work — defining tasks for systems that cannot define their own limits, reviewing output they did not produce, and deciding what ships. It names the job, gives it a vocabulary that survives the marketing churn, shows how the work fails when it fails, and lays out a first week small enough to finish.
Book 1 of The Orchestrator Series. Book 2 (Delegated Intelligence) is the engineering depth; Book 3 (Orchestrating Organizations) is the management case. Each stands alone.
Timothy O'Brien writes fiction and nonfiction about technology, work, systems, and the strange human realities emerging around artificial intelligence. Their books include the novels Into Alignment and Redundant, the Slop Codex volumes, and Orchestrator: A Field Guide to Delegated Intelligence. Across genres, they explore power, automation, institutional life, and how people retain agency in a world increasingly shaped by machines.