Comment by lukev
4 hours ago
> The skills that matter are the same ones that make someone a good manager of people.
I disagree. Part of being a good manager of (junior) people is teaching them soft skills in addition to technical skills -- how to ask for help and do their own research, and how to build their own skills autonomously, how to think about requirements creatively, etc.
Clear specifications and validating output is only a part of good people management, but is 100% of good agent management.
It’s teaching them in the first place. You can’t teach an LLM. Writing a heap of AGENTS.md is not teaching. LLMs take it as information, but they don’t learn from it in any non-superficial sense.
With https://code.claude.com/docs/en/skills you kinda can teach new things. And also, I have little doubt Anthropic reads these and future AIs might get trained on the most popular recommendations.
Yes, it's a crutch. But maybe the whole NNs that can code and we don't really know why is too.
>You can’t teach an LLM.
Actually you can. Training data, then the way you describe the task, goals, checkpoints, etc is still training.