From Overwhelmed Team Lead to AI Orchestrator: How I Took Back Control of My Dev Life

13 years building .NET products. Team lead. This is what the last 8 months taught me. The Anxiety Phase 13 years as a .NET engineer. I thought I had seen everything. Then May 2025 happened and my team started using Cursor . Before that my week was fine. 1 maybe 2 stories, a couple of PR reviews, some back and forth with business. This is what my week looked like. Then almost overnight it wasn't. Stories went from 1-2 per week ** to **1-2 per day . PRs went from a couple a week to 3-5 queued at any given time. Communication items - Slack threads, business questions, QA back and forth - just kept stacking. Every morning I'd open Slack and already feel behind before I'd done anything. The reason was my team had picked up Cursor. Juniors who used to write 20 lines and check with me, were now shipping whole features. Which sounds great right! It isn't great when you're the one reviewing it. I went from leaving 3-5 comments per PR to 10, 20, sometimes 30. Because Cursor was directing them, n