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laughing_man • yesterday at 7:32 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

But that's just good management. You can't have your organization struggle because someone gets hit by a bus or quits suddenly.


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ChrisMarshallNY • yesterday at 8:04 PM

> good management

I'm not sure I'd apply "good" as a modifier. Being generous, maybe "mediocre."

Good managers know how to find, cultivate, and maximize exceptional people, and that's a difficult job.

I have a feeling that LLMs are going to drastically improve the baseline quality of software. The top end will always require exceptional human involvement, but it will look different.

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duttish • yesterday at 7:38 PM

Hm. To me there's a difference between handling the bus factor: make sure several people on the team knows about things, and fungible engineers: can move engineers between products.

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