My latest take in Angular's newsletter this week: in the AI era, the skills that make you a great manager, will make you a *fantastic* individual contributor
Think about it. A good manager doesn't do all the work themselves (even if they could) – they break down work, delegate effectively, and quality-check output. Similarly, effective AI users don't just throw vague prompts at LLMs and hope for the best. They break problems into manageable chunks, provide clear context, give feedback, and carefully evaluate results.
The first order effects of this are clear enough. We'll need tools to manage and coordinate multiple AI agents. And, indeed, there are countless “agent orchestration platforms” out there seeking to solve exactly these sorts of problems.
But the second order effects are, to my mind, much more intriguing.
A few ideas of what might happen:
1) The rise of "meta-managers" - people who manage hybrid teams of humans, AIs, and human+AIs (what kind of tools will those people need to do their jobs well?)
2) The "IC VP" - getting promoted is all about "scope" and, in the past, bigger team = bigger scope. Not so with AI. Who will be the first to get to "VP-level scope" because they're particularly skilled at orchestrating AI st scale?
3) The art and science of project decomposition - perhaps a key skillset moving forward will be the ability to "decompose" projects into "AI-manageable" chunks. Perhaps this is just another thing that AI can do for us?
What crazy second order implications can you all come up with?
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