Working with AI feels more like leadership than coding

Post by jplusequalt » Mon, Aug 17, 2026, 10:47 PM UTC

Gareth321 wrote: post #215

jplusequalt wrote: post #188

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>Yeah this has removed all the boring and annoying part of building software for me. I can focus on the problems to solve and the solutions, and iterate much faster. Debugging has never been this easy. It's crazy. It sounds like you were more interested in the finished product, or "delivering value", than you were in solving problems.

It sounds like you don't understand that solving problems for people is valuable to them. Or that you are interested in solving problems which nobody cares about solving.

Post by volkanvardar » Wed, Aug 19, 2026, 5:04 AM UTC

mikeocool wrote: post #73

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…

If it is like management, it’s like the most low effort version of management. You just blindly tell it what to do without any regard for its motivations or morale. If it does something wrong, you just delete it and slightly rephrase your instructions and have it try again.