Yeah I mean, now you know how managers feel? :)

spend all day talking to people (except it's LLMs) and not sure if you accomplished anything, but people seem happy

The plus side is for your personal things like this you don't have to use it of course!

Last year I got two coworkers. My first in terms of coding. First I looked at everyone code request, but it soone overwhelmed me. We got a third and there was no way I could oversee everything and since I got a team of three management gave me other responsibilities on top.

I have no idea what they code and how they code it. I only go over the specs with them. Everything got quicker but the quality went down. I had to step in and we now have e2e-Test for everything. Maybe it's too much, but bugs got squashed and catched before we shipped.

So that's a win. Before I could test everything by hand. I worked more on things like creating a working release cycle and what tools we should use.

With or without AI the situation would have been similar.

I became a manager. We move the needle. I don't really get to code anymore and I don't see much of the code. It's strange.

Article addresses that.

Author says he does enjoy managing people, challenging them, and seeing them grow and accomplish things they couldn’t before.

None of that accompanies “managing” an LLM.