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Lately I keep hearing the same thing over and over: the things that are good for managing a team of devs are good for LLMs.

Good test cases.

Clear and concise documentation.

CI/CD.

Best practices and onboarding docs.

Managing LLMs is becoming more and more similar to managing teams of people.

Similarly, the agentic coding success stories are from orgs that had all of these things out of the gate.

Or had the sense to build the guidelines without trying to rely on writing fanfiction to guide the LLM.

Yep, I've been saying this for about a year now. Actually gave a presentation on this internally with this exact anecdote :D

There are so many bad analogies I could use to describe it, but they're all bad so I won't try.