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We're not all "managers" now

https://blog.thanethomson.com/2026/11/01/we-re-not-all-managers-now/
1•hatwd•1h ago

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bluecollarworke•35m ago
It's hard because "manage" is a very vague term.

> Having used AI extensively daily for the past year now, the only thing I do that's common to the practice of management is articulate what I want from the agent in natural language. That's it.

So you went from writing the code, to writing the task description for the AI, which, if the AI was human, would be considered management. But you are not managing the AI because the AI is a computer. Again, "manage" is probably too vague of a word to be useful here, because "managing" is what humans do 24/7; What were you doing with the computer prior to managing it?

Do people who summarize articles write? Or do they summarize? Do programmers write? Or do they program? Do AI managers write? Or do they prompt?

hatwd•9m ago
> What were you doing with the computer prior to managing it?

In the most literal sense, "instructing it".

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