Yes, the intention is not to analogize managing bots with managing people, but to say that management was never really about people management, that was instrumental to the real goal of managers, which is to manage outcomes for the business, which is what we now are asking ICs to do since they don’t have to spend so long writing code.
Yeah I agree with your point, I think all I wanted to point out is a problem in terminology, since I find the “manager” word confounded by the people manager meaning.
Also, I don’t think responsibility for business outcomes alone is enough to call someone a manager—a lot of roles do directly own business outcomes, especially at smaller companies, without usually being called a “management” role. (Though I can’t really think of a better word for this at this moment.)
However, the word manager does have a sense of “delegation/management of other agents or complex systems, usually to create multiplicative impact”, which applies equally whether you’re managing humans or AIs. I think that’s the sense I’m trying to convey when I say “AI manager”.
Yes, the intention is not to analogize managing bots with managing people, but to say that management was never really about people management, that was instrumental to the real goal of managers, which is to manage outcomes for the business, which is what we now are asking ICs to do since they don’t have to spend so long writing code.
Yeah I agree with your point, I think all I wanted to point out is a problem in terminology, since I find the “manager” word confounded by the people manager meaning.
Also, I don’t think responsibility for business outcomes alone is enough to call someone a manager—a lot of roles do directly own business outcomes, especially at smaller companies, without usually being called a “management” role. (Though I can’t really think of a better word for this at this moment.)
However, the word manager does have a sense of “delegation/management of other agents or complex systems, usually to create multiplicative impact”, which applies equally whether you’re managing humans or AIs. I think that’s the sense I’m trying to convey when I say “AI manager”.