My first boss told me that it's the primary role of a good manager to keep bullshit away from your most competent staff and 'manage' everyone else. I've worked for a number of organizations with different ideas of management since then, but that has been my guiding principle.
This meshes nicely with another comment that resonated with me about how it’s seniors that need to act like what the article talks about.
The senior ICs are the squad leaders on the frontline with the rest of the team, knee deep in the same shit they are. It’s really THOSE people doing the constant day-to-day trust building, team leveling, shit getting done-ing, repairing…
And so yeah, a good manager lets those seniors just go be good at that, not bogging them down with work that is a complete waste of their potential. It’s a bit of a symbiotic relationship really, because a manager with no such seniors on the team won’t have the firepower to crush goals, and a senior without a good manager will never be allowed to excel.
One thing I ponder after remembering previous tech booms, is that they often left behind something extremely valuable (fiber). With all the GPU datacenters rolling out, what next bubble can take advantage of this boon, if it is one?
Exactly this. Modern capitalism is under the control of a minority of extroverts, psychopaths and control freaks, who are also constantly proposed as role models. They all love open offices, to the detriment of everyone else.
The solution to this problem is to develop your agents to use delegation and exchange tokens for access to other services using an on-behalf-of flow. Agents are never operating under their own identity, but as the user.
What else is there to do? We live in an era where there's nothing left to talk about except gpu enabled terminal emulators and how much capitalism sucks
