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You often see the claim that “AI will make everybody a manager.” This frames the core work to be done as setting a vision and delegating. But I think delegating power is proportional to how well you know the thing, which only emerges from having been in the weeds and wrestling with the work. Agentic software allows anyone to blindly delegate and sit back. It’s an enabler of laziness with the illusion of leverage. But I think there’s value for actual makers to understand the nuances of what they do, because they’re the ones who actually can guide/steer agents in specific ways. Most managers have bad taste, and most makers will avoid AI tools, but what if the makers were open to it?