Not particularly directed at you cuz I don’t know shit about you, but this fires me up.
As a manager who hasn’t seriously coded anything for a good few years:
If your day to day work as a manager feels like getting a LLM to get the right output, then you are a really bad manager. And you probably should replace your employees with an LLM to save them from having to work under you.
The “figuring out how to design good code from requirements” part of coding is the fun, challenging, thinking-ful piece. If you’ve already done that and treat your employees like code monkeys who do your bidding, then you’re both a dictator and also wildly inefficient. Your employees suck at designing code because you never let them use their brains - it’s your fault.
Good to see people finally stop being a bunch of reactionaries about it.
Artists make art using tools. AI is a tool. Bad artists still make bad art regardless of tools.
EDIT: Getting down voted by n00bs that don’t even know a DDIM from a Euler A but call folks ‘prompters’ like it’s derogatory.
You’ve still gotta be good at prompt engineering to make great AI art.
Like you said - it’s a tool which requires nuanced skill like any other art. It just happens to lower the barrier to entry a pretty significant amount
Some of us are getting “boss vibes.” Like, I’m great at being a boss, it takes a very particular set of skills to tell other people what to do.
Not particularly directed at you cuz I don’t know shit about you, but this fires me up.
As a manager who hasn’t seriously coded anything for a good few years:
If your day to day work as a manager feels like getting a LLM to get the right output, then you are a really bad manager. And you probably should replace your employees with an LLM to save them from having to work under you.
The “figuring out how to design good code from requirements” part of coding is the fun, challenging, thinking-ful piece. If you’ve already done that and treat your employees like code monkeys who do your bidding, then you’re both a dictator and also wildly inefficient. Your employees suck at designing code because you never let them use their brains - it’s your fault.
I’m talking boss vs leader.
Boss - guy who tells you what to do
Leader - guy who actively participates the doing