LLM doesn't need soft skills, but just knowing how to write a prompt to get the correct percentage values in a RAG and get the result close to your expectations out. Well it might be different based on the training data, which ai company, and how much you're paying.

People are different, they will be sometime affected by their emotional situation, surrounding, no matter how much they're being paid, You need to understand their mental situation, did he got scolded by the upper management today? He might not be on his best of his capacity right now. Or they might've pulled an all nighter and really not in their best position.

If someone going to treat people like an LLM, definitely is not going to have good time

But if you are managing AI agents you dont' need "soft skills" do you? You don't need to be especially nice to the AI, or symphatize with it, or have fun with it to build trust,

I would imagine that managing a team of AI-agents is totally different from managing a team of people.

> those soft skills

They may be softer, but they're really not an identical set of soft-skills.

To illustrate the difference, imagine: "Hey, you've got all those soft-skills from tweaking the AI stuff, right? I need you to motivate Bob to get his head back in the game, but without causing him to resign."

Talking to an LLM is not a skill, just like using Google is not a skill.

Why? One, the companies like Google or Anthropic or OpenAI are working hard for it not to be a skill. That's the whole point. Second, these system are opaque, so there is no understanding to happen, only superstition, which might be wrong or change tomorrow.

I don't think soft skills describes it in the traditional sense. The skillset largely needed with LLMs is more akin to being an editor or qa tester.

I suppose you could describe having the modesty to admit to yourself when you don't understand and research something deeper could be described as a soft skill, but I'd say it's a stretch. You are dealing with yourself in that scenario, not others.