Think of it this way, some engineers go into people management, they aren’t coding directly anymore…they are managing people that code. Prompting is a similar lateral promotion, just the people you are managing are dumber AIs, you get a lot of them, and instead of meetings you communicate with them via prompts. The fact that they can also do QA is critical because they make a lot of mistakes, but can actually fix those mistakes, so you just devote more AI time to that.

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friendzis a day ago | parent [-]

> they are managing people that code. Prompting is a similar lateral promotion

So prompting is a lateral move away from engineering to management? Are we arguing semantics here, because that's quite what I was saying, just in the other direction.

	▲	seanmcdirmid a day ago \| parent [-]
		We aren't really, but I guess it really depends on how you see coding as more than just directly orchestrating computer instructions or not. Prompting is less direct, but it still feels like programming to me, I guess people management would as well.