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seanmcdirmidlast Wednesday at 4:14 PM1 replyview on HN

Think of it this way, some engineers go into people management, they aren’t coding directly anymore…they are managing people that code. Prompting is a similar lateral promotion, just the people you are managing are dumber AIs, you get a lot of them, and instead of meetings you communicate with them via prompts. The fact that they can also do QA is critical because they make a lot of mistakes, but can actually fix those mistakes, so you just devote more AI time to that.


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friendzislast Wednesday at 6:17 PM

> they are managing people that code. Prompting is a similar lateral promotion

So prompting is a lateral move away from engineering to management? Are we arguing semantics here, because that's quite what I was saying, just in the other direction.

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