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given that LLMs and gen AIs are great at talking bullshit and creating presentations, one is a more realistic expectation than the other
I’ll believe AI can replace engineers when I see NVIDIA firing them. But like the graphic says, the manager’s job seems a lot easier to replace instead.
Managers might not like people but they don’t want to get rid of them. There’s no cheap thrill from micromanaging an AI.
100,000% this - money or even utility seems to not be everything, compared to feeling self-importance
Plus it’s harder to pass the buck and blame an AI for your screw ups. It would be perceived, as the kids say, as a skills issue.
Is a CEO a manager?
Yes. In big established companies they are managing managers.
In smaller companies, no
In bigger company’s C levels manage VPs who manage directors who manage managers
It’s management alll the way down
Depends on the size of the company.
Owners: with AI we can finally get rid of everyone
If we fire all developers and allow AIs to program themselves, the AIs are going to commit virtual seppuku after a few days.
It’s the marketing department that should really be worried.
Like the C level isn’t the marketing department
And to be fair, like always, good marketing is genius stuff.
But it also feels rare. I suspect precisely because C-suite and upper management love to mess with it, so the rote marketing approach gets normalized, which in turn drives all the decent marketing people away.
Only one of them gets to make the decision to fire the other
Maybe the central problem is racing to put other people out of work period, regardless of who they are. Maybe putting people out of work is not a net benefit for society, it’s actually negative in the long run, and only truly a benefit for shareholders. They don’t need any more of those at the expense of the working class.
Ideally, nobody should have to work.
The problem is that labor-saving technology is never permitted to save labor. We make those displaced laborers go do other shit.
It should be a net benefit for society. Any system in which it isn’t is a very flawed system. Like most of the world right now.
Could probably replace managers with AI, but being trained on most managers would mean it would be equally bad at its job.
I think the most likely is for the artists jobs to go away as art doesn’t have to be exact, but code does.