>get a bunch of hyper active child like coding entities with memory deficiencies to build stuff without going off the rail and introducing massive security problems or building something completely mismatched to the requirements

Development is essentially becoming management.

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cautiouscat 5 hours ago | parent [-]

I see this comparison a lot, but I’m not sure I agree. At least not semantically. The list of what an engineer using agents is responsible for, largely hasn’t changed. Engineering managers haven’t changed responsibilities either.

Even with wrangling agents, you’re really just making them right the “correct code”. Something EMs don’t do, or at least the good ones don’t do with their ICs.

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pjmlp 5 hours ago | parent [-]

It is quite similar to architecture work when others in the team do the actual coding, and lead devs / architects only have time to try out prototypes.

Only now instead of local or offshore devs, it is agents.

	▲	pydry 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I was mainly doing architectural work as a coder long before LLMs came along. So was everyone else who wasnt slopping out boilerplate.