Working with AI feels more like leadership than coding

Post by skydhash » Sat, Aug 15, 2026, 8:40 PM UTC

bah9 wrote: post #138

Frannky wrote: post #127

I love the level of empowerment they unlock for super cheap. I have a personal assistant that's a Slack bot talking to ohmypy on an old Mac M1 turned into a server. It has access to my calendar, remembers the things I need to remember, and pulls data from a gym tracker—an app I vibecoded just for myself—to pull books and papers and create audio, and easy to digest introductions that help me understand a paper before…

"I want to do something advanced" - what exactly? What is exactly your contribution in this endless rat race?

Post by j45 » Sat, Aug 15, 2026, 8:44 PM UTC

miyoji wrote: post #7

The word is "management", not "leadership". This comes across as a LinkedIn post filled with vague notions and weak writing. The conclusion also completely contradicts a previous point, which is that managing an LLM is not like managing a human. So the skills are, in contradiction to that LLM-ism of a conclusion, new. The author isn't using their people management skills, they're using new LLM-management skills. They…

Post by LogicFailsMe » Sat, Aug 15, 2026, 9:07 PM UTC

smoe wrote: post #72

LogicFailsMe wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sure sure, but it is surprisingly like managing an intern, or a fresh engineer where there is a pre-existing language barrier. At least in my experience it is. There might be a dash of carefully negotiating with the devil himself in the mix to make sure you ask for precisely what you wish to have built or you get something that meets the spec of what you told it but it isn't what you wanted.

To me, it feels closer to dealing with a personal outsourcing agency than working with internal coworkers, because the agents have zero skin in the game. It's great. You can get a lot of stuff done in parallel. But it's much more a game of checkbox compliance than working with someone who has their head in the same context as you all day. Even a very junior teammate has some situational awareness inside a company/tea…

Post by query_ilands » Sat, Aug 15, 2026, 9:13 PM UTC

Post by CuriouslyC » Sat, Aug 15, 2026, 9:22 PM UTC

miyoji wrote: post #7

The word is "management", not "leadership". This comes across as a LinkedIn post filled with vague notions and weak writing. The conclusion also completely contradicts a previous point, which is that managing an LLM is not like managing a human. So the skills are, in contradiction to that LLM-ism of a conclusion, new. The author isn't using their people management skills, they're using new LLM-management skills. They…