"That Slack discussion that aligned the team on an architectural pattern?

[cate@hachyderm.io]

"That Slack discussion that aligned the team on an architectural pattern? If it isn't discoverable to the agent, it's illegible in the same way it would be unknown to a new hire joining three months later."

Some of these multi-agent workflow writeups are basically reinventing engineering management from first principles - except with agents instead of humans.

(openai.com)

[gvwilson@mastodon.social]

@cate Silicon Valley has reinvented the bus at least three times, so why not basic management practices?

[mhoye@cosocial.ca]

@gvwilson @cate For people who never take public transit or any history courses or management training, all of this must seem like they're doing the most groundbreaking work in history.

[cate@hachyderm.io]

@gvwilson urgh

[mrtazz@chaos.social]

@cate one of the saddest things for me to see in this time of AI being shoved into everything is how much a lot of people are willing to write down and explain to an agent that they never did or would've for a human

[quotidianennui@hachyderm.io]

@cate Just read that blog, got bored halfway through and thought isn't this what we meatsacks have been doing via something like an ADR (or similar) approach anyway.

It is exactly as you say; only agents don't learn like new hires do.

[donaldball@triangletoot.party]

@mrtazz @cate If this is the development that gets management to value and reward documentation…

[christinamltn@mstdn.ca]

@cate I’ve just nodding along as so many “AI makes this totally different” conversations eventually get to “we should do what we always knew we should do”. It’s a little depressing how much we’re willing to help the bots but didn’t have time for all that work when it was only helping humans.