But that's just good management. You can't have your organization struggle because someone gets hit by a bus or quits suddenly.

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ChrisMarshallNY an hour ago | parent | next [-]

> good management

I'm not sure I'd apply "good" as a modifier. Being generous, maybe "mediocre."

Good managers know how to find, cultivate, and maximize exceptional people, and that's a difficult job.

I have a feeling that LLMs are going to drastically improve the baseline quality of software. The top end will always require exceptional human involvement, but it will look different.

	▲	laughing_man an hour ago \| parent [-]
		I disagree. As a manager you're better off accepting a little lower level of productivity from your best employees if it means you don't have embarrassing, to higher management but also to customers, lapses in productivity.

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duttish 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Hm. To me there's a difference between handling the bus factor: make sure several people on the team knows about things, and fungible engineers: can move engineers between products.

	▲	laughing_man an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Is there? When someone gets hit by a bus you can't just move another team member into that job; you need to bring someone in from the outside. There has to be some level of fungibility for that to happen.