Your AI Agent Doesn't Need a Better Prompt. It Needs a Better Manager.

We already know what happens when managers don't understand the work. AI is about to reproduce that failure at scale.

A few months ago, I was on a coaching call with a software engineering lead in Istanbul. He’d just gotten a new director, someone from a product management background who’d never written a line of production code. The director was smart, polished, had all the right credentials. But three months in, the team was miserable.

“He can’t tell the difference be…