Guiding coding agents as engineering versus people management
A thread challenges the manager analogy by pointing to the work it leaves out: breaking down problems, giving detailed instructions, checking understanding and reviewing generated code.
TLDR
The user calls working with coding agents “engineering with a very unusual programming interface.” They offer a hypothetical: asking an agent to implement something, then inspecting 2,000 lines of generated code, understanding its architecture, correcting a misunderstanding and verifying the fix. Their argument is that detecting subtle bugs still requires understanding the work—not merely delegating it.
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