Can managing a team of AI agents make you a better engineering manager?
HankYeomans · x · 2026-11-02
HankYeomans floats a wild idea: could iterating on a team of AI agents train someone to become a better engineering manager? The attached quote is Ben Horowitz's 'three rules of snakes': kill the snake immediately, don't go back and play with dead snakes, and all opportunities start out looking like snakes.
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