Ex-Big Tech managers may thrive in the AI era: manage agents like you managed teams
lxfater · x · 2026-10-27
A former Big Tech manager argues managers hold a real advantage in the AI era: their core skills — setting goals, planning, assigning work by strengths, tracking progress, unblocking, cancelling bad tasks, recruiting, and rewarding — transfer directly to managing agents. Reposter adds that good managers can lead a team of college students (read: agents) to deliver.
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