Ask HN: How are agentic workflows meant to offset AI debt?
The article discusses the challenges of managing projects that appear to be well-designed but are actually lacking in foundational design principles. It highlights the issue of 'undesigned' work, where project managers may underestimate the time needed to address technical debt. The author questions the effectiveness of agentic workflows in mitigating these problems, suggesting that even with automation, significant manual intervention may still be required.
- ▪Projects often appear well-designed but lack foundational design principles.
- ▪Project managers may underestimate the time needed to address technical debt.
- ▪The author questions the effectiveness of agentic workflows in solving these issues.
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I don't know quite how to put it. But projects I inherit and am supposed to get over the line have this same strange quality: they are 'undesigned'.I believe this may be because processes and context-related code that was previously considered with basic design principles and functionality seem not so much to be missing, but they have they seem to be simulated. Giving the impression of being considered, which is quite difficult for a project manager to catch.So I'm now spending a lot more time now going back and designing this 'undesigned' work. Rebuilding things manually that was abstracted past or missed entirley, which people at the project management level think "won't take you that long".
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Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at Ycombinator.