If managers can't understand why this isn't a brag, then your job is hardly safe.

ajb 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Agents are new, but dumb coding practices are not. Despite what it may seem, the knowledge of how to manage development has increased. One practice I haven't seen for a while is managing by limiting the number of lines changed. (This was a dumb idea because rewriting a function or module is sometimes the only way to keep it comprehensible - I'm not talking about wholesale rewriting, I'm talking about code becoming encrusted with conditions because the devs are worried that changing the structure would change too many lines)

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motbus3 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Managers jobs are more at risk than senior engineers.

My company, and few others I know reduced the number of managers by 90% or more.

	▲	kakacik 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		This. We moved to 'agile' roughly at same time llms started coming. You know who is mostly missing from the wider IT teams landscape now? Most of PMs and BAs, on purpose. Who is keeping their work - devs or more like devops, surprisingly testers (since our stuff seems ridiculously complex to test well for many use cases and we can't just break our bank by destroying production by fast half-assed deliveries). And then admins/unix/network/windows/support team, nobody replacing those anytime soon. Those few PMs left are there only for big efforts requiring organizing many teams, and we rarely do those now. I don't like it, chasing people, babysitting processes and so on, but certainly just more work for me.