Gergely Orosz Rejects AI Agent Management Comparison to Engineering Leadership
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As someone who had been an engineering manager in the past, it's laughable for anyone to compare AI agents management to people management. Engineering management is as close to this as The Minions and Gru is to the real word (and AI agents *are* like those Minions, seriously)
I always hated how people compare managing AI to engineering managers managing people. Good engineer management is bad AI management. I would hate to work for someone that managed me like an AI agent. Just absolutely micromanaging every single thing I do. The funniest or…
I'd put this more as tech lead skills transfer well. It's about planning the work; delegating the right parts; checking in on the results... orchestrating! I'd wager tech leads have a lot of these skills (that EMs ofc also need)
@GergelyOrosz I don't think it's entirely laughable: management skills are applicable to agent management. Is engineering management the same as agent management? Absolutely not. But I do think management skills make one a better manager of agent fleets