Great initial exploration of the topic. Having worked on a service that is trying to do exactly what you say is not possible, let me tell you! It is!
No, we can go into more details, if you want, but my own experience with LLM's and tools based on them is that we can easily mimic the behavior of an average manager, and even some great ones (with the help of a human) using LLM's and some extra spice on top.
My own hypothesis is that LLM's will have a much bigger impact on management / leadership than they will on coders/testers. (even if they will have an impact on all of them).
Here's my reasoning: the problems you mention as examples of what LLM's cannot help with is exactly what they can help with the most. In other words, reflection, sumarization, and generation of ideas are the easy things for an LLM.
What they can't do (yet) is to then implement the ideas they came up with, and collect feedback from the affected team members, and then react to that. This is where the manager/human comes in, in filtering, applying, collecting feedback and then getting back to the LLM with more information.
I'd say that LLM's - even today - are already better than the average manager, at most of the tasks. They just can't interact with the world around yet. But they will. It's a question of time.
I'm probably biased, but what we know about change and learning is that it requires us to make our own connections and arrive at our own insights. That's why coaching, when done well, is probably the most effective way of helping people change.
I am not (yet) seeing anything AI-based that can act in such a way as to spark that type of insight that can only come from being asked the right questions at the right time within the person's unique context. Not to mention that a big part of coaching is the resonant connection between two human beings that trust each other, something we're evolutionarily very attuned to.
Oi Pedro!
Great initial exploration of the topic. Having worked on a service that is trying to do exactly what you say is not possible, let me tell you! It is!
No, we can go into more details, if you want, but my own experience with LLM's and tools based on them is that we can easily mimic the behavior of an average manager, and even some great ones (with the help of a human) using LLM's and some extra spice on top.
My own hypothesis is that LLM's will have a much bigger impact on management / leadership than they will on coders/testers. (even if they will have an impact on all of them).
Here's my reasoning: the problems you mention as examples of what LLM's cannot help with is exactly what they can help with the most. In other words, reflection, sumarization, and generation of ideas are the easy things for an LLM.
What they can't do (yet) is to then implement the ideas they came up with, and collect feedback from the affected team members, and then react to that. This is where the manager/human comes in, in filtering, applying, collecting feedback and then getting back to the LLM with more information.
I'd say that LLM's - even today - are already better than the average manager, at most of the tasks. They just can't interact with the world around yet. But they will. It's a question of time.
What do you think about this take?
Interesting question and reflection, Pedro.
I'm probably biased, but what we know about change and learning is that it requires us to make our own connections and arrive at our own insights. That's why coaching, when done well, is probably the most effective way of helping people change.
I am not (yet) seeing anything AI-based that can act in such a way as to spark that type of insight that can only come from being asked the right questions at the right time within the person's unique context. Not to mention that a big part of coaching is the resonant connection between two human beings that trust each other, something we're evolutionarily very attuned to.
Never say never. But for now, I'll say "not yet."
I, for one, would welcome our AI overlords eerrmmm my handy AI helper :) I see a number of disjoint tools, it'd be nice to have a tailored toolkit.
I’ve seen an app that claims to do something similar, it’s called Bunch