Re:We're not all "managers" now
by bluecollarworke on Sunday November 01, 2026 @09:05AM
(#50325820)
It's hard because "manage" is a very vague term.
> Having used AI extensively daily for the past year now, the only thing I do that's common to the practice of management is articulate what I want from the agent in natural language. That's it.
So you went from writing the code, to writing the task description for the AI, which, if the AI was human, would be considered management. But you are not managing the AI because the AI is a computer. Again, "manage" is probably too vague of a word to be useful here, because "managing" is what humans do 24/7; What were you doing with the computer prior to managing it?
Do people who summarize articles write? Or do they summarize? Do programmers write? Or do they program? Do AI managers write? Or do they prompt?
Re:We're not all "managers" now
by hatwd on Sunday November 01, 2026 @10:30AM
(#50326582)
Per the post, articulation of the desired results is the only thing AI-assisted development has in common with "management". This is only about 20-30% of what constitutes "management" though.
Even if you're running fleets of agents coordinating other agents, you're still most certainly not a "manager". You're just constraining and launching more complex, long-running software generation trajectories.
> Having used AI extensively daily for the past year now, the only thing I do that's common to the practice of management is articulate what I want from the agent in natural language. That's it.
So you went from writing the code, to writing the task description for the AI, which, if the AI was human, would be considered management. But you are not managing the AI because the AI is a computer. Again, "manage" is probably too vague of a word to be useful here, because "managing" is what humans do 24/7; What were you doing with the computer prior to managing it?
Do people who summarize articles write? Or do they summarize? Do programmers write? Or do they program? Do AI managers write? Or do they prompt?
In the most literal sense, "instructing it".
Even if you're running fleets of agents coordinating other agents, you're still most certainly not a "manager". You're just constraining and launching more complex, long-running software generation trajectories.