alt Hacker NewsI don't know what kind of work you do on a daily basis. But, the difference between sending a Slack message and sending a message to kick off an agent to chain a bunch of tasks together is a vastly lower activation barrier. I think many people will jump over that lower barrier out of FOMO, to avoid being outcompeted by those who already jumped.
As an IC though, me sending a slack message is perhaps less impactful than a PL responding to a report :)
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htrp • yesterday at 10:20 PM
you basically just described management, where you send a slack message and kick off a bunch of tasks to your team
Maybe I'm just an idiot but...which one is the lower activation energy one?
If I need something done and I ask one of my team members to do it, I trust them to get it done without supervision. They are good at their jobs and I leave them to it.
But I usually have to babysit an agent somewhat.