[woeirua]

It’s not how companies work today, but it could be how companies operate in the future. Imagine a situation where single engineers manage a fleet of agents and own entire systems. This is already happening. If that engineer leaves then it’s game over for that system.

[crazygringo]

It's a basic part of management that you never let any individual employee become irreplaceable. Remember, people get sick and go on vacation too. Managers are always supposed to make sure that tasks and responsibilities can be picked up by someone else.

And the AI that is making it easier for engineers to handle so much more engineering, also makes it easier for a new engineer to take over. They literally just sit down and prompt the AI to start explaining how the current system is set up.

[woeirua]

You would hope so, but yet… a lot of people are getting their teams to reap cost savings.

[crazygringo]

Making sure that no employee is irreplaceable doesn't really have much to do with cost savings.

It's just about how you assign work, rotate what people work on, code reviews are a part of it, etc.

None of this has anything to do with AI. If anything, the way that best practices around AI involve lots of design documents, tests, markdown, etc. can actually make it much easier for a new employee to continue where a previous employee left off.