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> Leaders can now validate assumptions, explore design directions, parse logs, and reason about architecture faster than ever ... You can be technical today wit
by sublinear 11mo ago
> Leaders can now validate assumptions, explore design directions, parse logs, and reason about architecture faster than ever ... You can be technical today without being deep in code every hour of the day.
No they can't. I've never seen this go well. The use of AI in this way will merely start a conversation with your devs and if you insist on your opinions based on what the AI told you you're going to lose massive amounts of trust with your team.
> ICs can operate at a higher strategic level without getting bogged down in mechanical work.
ICs have always been forced to be strategic with their architecture and specific technical decisions only to get the credit taken away from them by upper management when it goes well and play defense in the blame game when it doesn't go so well. Nothing has changed.
- torginus 11mo agoI have unfortunately have had an encounter with a product guy who coded an entire UI for a feature with ChatGPT - then told me it was almost finished, I just need to fix a couple bugs and hook up some API calls. He got very angry with me when I told him that I'd need to rewrite the thing from scratch.
- taway1874 11mo agoThe nerve of that product guy! I’ve always been vocal about this ... engineers are at the core of our business because they build and ship. Everyone else, myself included as an engineering manager exists to support them in doing exactly that. We don’t create value by holding meetings, drafting roadmaps, or removing blockers ... those are simply the means to an end. We create value when a product is built and shipped. It really is that simple.
- robocat 11mo agoSurely you mean you create value once your customers use your product to achieve their purposes...