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Why Engineers Hate Their Managers (and What to Do About It)

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85 points signa11 | 1 comments | 24 Jun 25 16:35 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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jurschreuder ◴[25 Jun 25 18:59 UTC] No.44380753[source]▶
Software development is the only high-skilled work where people have managers.

Doctors don't have managers. Lawyers don't have managers. Professors don't have managers. Architects don't have managers. Bankers don't have managers.

Engineers should not have managers.

There should just be different levels of engineers.

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setr ◴[25 Jun 25 22:42 UTC] No.44382448[source]▶
with enough people, and a sufficiently high view, all problems are about human-management. This is the case for any subject.

Management is not a product of university MBA programs and power-hungry corporate animals seeking to impose their will on others; it is an inevitably of group labour.

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1. collingreen ◴[27 Jun 25 13:28 UTC] No.44396658[source]▶
This is part of the allure of ai to the management class - having a bunch of your team do exactly what you say (I'm not saying it's what AI will do, just that the thing some of them are drooling over) and vastly reducing this coordination problem.

Ironically I think bad managers replacing their teams with AI will be crushed by AI because 1. wtf do they even do and 2. suddenly the work being done correctly is on them with nobody to scapegoat later

I expect, for this reason, we'll see AI stabilize at managers telling their teams they must use AI and then demanding more output but not see entire workforces replaced.