[ossobuco]

> but if you try that you'll find yourself supplying an enormous amount of context you didn't expect to have to communicate. Context not even directly related to the code at hand, but about the broader business or industry, past lessons learned, something the CEO said to you last week about the feature, etc.

Basically you go from programmer to product manager, except you also get to micromanage a non-sentient programmer

[lordswork]

What prevents an AI agent from becoming the product manager as well, and communicating with you (the customer) to clarify requirements?

[datadrivenangel]

A failure mode of product managers is to just pass customer requests to the developers.

I don't see an AI agent doing a good job of avoiding that.

[awill88]

The tenor of the conversation I imagine since it’s a chatbot

[krainboltgreene]

Slavery laws, presumably.