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>It's very difficult to have informed opinions on a black box with an ambiguous, ever-changing and nominally unbounded set of capabilities.

Hah, welcome to what it can feel like to manage people.

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Programmers leaning on agents have switched from engineering into management, but not all of them have accepted this yet.

What it most reminds me of is working with a team of outsourced developers. One of those ones at an outsourcing company with high turnover so you can never really build up any level of shared vision or tribal knowledge base, so constant micro-management is an outright necessity for any medium- to long-term project.

this is, arguably, why senior managers are so all-in on AI

you send an email to get something done and you get an unreliable answer from the peons... is it truly that different from an unreliable AI?

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