That’s true, however the current vibe coding ecosystem is clearly not written in this mindset. You will have a hard time to dive into anything if you previously generated 2k LOC/hour, which is absolutely possible. Typing was never the bottleneck, understanding, and knowing that you did something well was always the real bottleneck. LLMs make this even worse. You can move Jira tickets to done faster with it, but even bad developers can do that many times compared to better ones, because for example they mindlessly copy-paste StackOverflow answers whose half of the code is absolutely not necessary, but they don’t care, because “it works”… until it doesn’t.
Better documentation, more test cases, and an NLP interface to query the code
Less cognitive load, more complete mental models
>even bad developers can do that many times compared to better ones, because for example they mindlessly copy-paste StackOverflow answers whose half of the code is absolutely not necessary
Maybe LLMs, much like StackOverflow, make good devs better and bad devs worse
Like a force multiplier for good practices and bad practices
Managers with development skills are almost always better, because they can dive into the details if there's ever a problem.
That’s true, however the current vibe coding ecosystem is clearly not written in this mindset. You will have a hard time to dive into anything if you previously generated 2k LOC/hour, which is absolutely possible. Typing was never the bottleneck, understanding, and knowing that you did something well was always the real bottleneck. LLMs make this even worse. You can move Jira tickets to done faster with it, but even bad developers can do that many times compared to better ones, because for example they mindlessly copy-paste StackOverflow answers whose half of the code is absolutely not necessary, but they don’t care, because “it works”… until it doesn’t.
>LLMs make this even worse
Not in my experience
Better documentation, more test cases, and an NLP interface to query the code
Less cognitive load, more complete mental models
>even bad developers can do that many times compared to better ones, because for example they mindlessly copy-paste StackOverflow answers whose half of the code is absolutely not necessary
Maybe LLMs, much like StackOverflow, make good devs better and bad devs worse
Like a force multiplier for good practices and bad practices
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I would not call these managerial skills: these are skills of lead engineers. Management does not really look at the code, right?
Not just the “management” needs managerial skills.
You would have to have these skills as you become senior engineer anyway. I have never heard these tasks to be referred to as managing people.
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