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Depends. If it is for writing documents, you really don't need a lot of 'technical writers'. For managing engineers? Honestly a competent staff engineer can rep
by rvz 2y ago
Depends. If it is for writing documents, you really don't need a lot of 'technical writers'. For managing engineers? Honestly a competent staff engineer can replace 2 PMs.
For writing code with PMs replacing Engineers with AI assistants? Very unlikely, even if they try as soon as you get to the question on maintaining an existing codebase, this is where LLMs begin to hallucinate more and struggle.
The typical PM won't know that they generated bad code. You still need an engineer to detect that.
This is a obvious bubble repeating like it's 1999.
- kccqzy 2y agoMost engineers are bad at writing documentation. They are so blind at writing badly that they won't even realize their writing is bad. I've reviewed a large number of design docs, and the average quality is so bad that the doc reviewer will just reply with many comments and requests for clarification. AI can fix things like grammar and phrasing, but it won't be able to fix the context that's missing. Managing engineers is not the job of PMs anyway. PMs are supposed to manage projects, not people.