| This could also read as "how to be a horrible people manager for junior engineers". Techniques that work for inexperienced engineers with high ability but limited judgment often work well with agentic coding systems. - Give them clarity of purpose. Why are they doing what they're doing? - Make explaining it back to you part of the job. - Give them two-way doors. Make mistakes reversible. - Put effort into thoughtful refactoring as an actual sub-task instead of just accepting piled on hacks. - Make your operating rules crisp and make sure they store them in their memories. - Be accountable for their work. It's not okay to crank out AI Slop and then say "Claude's fault". We're all Software Development Managers now. So, micromanage the LLMs if you want to, but you'll be missing out on chances to improve them for your purposes and, more importantly, to improve yourself as a manager. |