It is also a good lesson for people who have never been in any managerial position and might be inclined to think the “pointy-haired boss” is making all the bad decisions.
People don’t realize how much a manager’s job is making sure that what the reportees are doing aligns with the goal of the team->division->organization all the way up. Short-focused optimalization for the latest task by LLM agents is very similar to the experience of a manager: what might make sense from the point of view of a single developer locally may go against larger goals at edge cases.
Yes, I have been thinking about the same.
It is also a good lesson for people who have never been in any managerial position and might be inclined to think the “pointy-haired boss” is making all the bad decisions.
People don’t realize how much a manager’s job is making sure that what the reportees are doing aligns with the goal of the team->division->organization all the way up. Short-focused optimalization for the latest task by LLM agents is very similar to the experience of a manager: what might make sense from the point of view of a single developer locally may go against larger goals at edge cases.