Comment by Ronsenshi
1 month ago
The only issue is that as an engineering manager you reasonably expect that the team learns new things, improve their skills, in general grow as engineers. With AI and its context handling you're working with a team where each member has severe brain damage that affects their ability to form long term memories. You can rewire their brain to a degree teaching them new "skills" or giving them new tools, but they still don't actually learn from their mistakes or their experiences.
As a manager I would encourage them to use the LLM tools. I would also encourage unit tests, e2e testing, testing coverages, CI pipelines automating the testing, automatic pr reviewing etc...
It's also peeking at the big/impactful changes and ignoring the small ones.
Your job isn't to make sure they don't have "brain damage" its to keep them productive and not shipping mistakes.
Being optimistic (or pessimistic heh), if things keep the trend then the models will evolve as well and will probably be quite better in one year than they are now.