People who will get paid more if AI eliminates jobs (in theory, anyway — execs aren't necessarily owners) versus people whose jobs will be eliminated.

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withinboredom 10 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The funny thing is that AI can probably replace the exec’s job before it can replace a devs job.

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narag 9 hours ago | parent | next [-]

It's absolutely replacing their jobs, but not their positions. They use it extensively to create all the paperwork, communications, emails, translations... and they work fine for these tasks so they think it's equally useful for everything.

I believe that it's pretty close to the article thesis, just more prosaic.

And yes, the AI works great for some programming tasks, just not for everything or completely unsupervised.

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xixixao 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

What do you think the exec job is? What do they do every day, every working hour? And how will AI replace that?

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withinboredom 9 hours ago | parent [-]

It’s not a mystery… I can tell you what I do most days, and probably 80% of it is communication. An AI could do that. That communication is to learn what is going on up, down, and across the org. I mostly want to make sure we aren’t doing redundant work — though sometimes that is useful, and making sure timelines aren’t slipping. Oh, and dealing with conflicts.

The other 20% is writing: policies, SOPs, audits, grants, performance reviews, etc.

I could probably automate over half my job in n8n in a weekend… hmm… actually might try that.

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AnimalMuppet 10 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

No, execs aren't owners, but... if an exec can deliver the same or better results with fewer employees, aren't they a better exec? And if so, aren't they worth more money?

(Yeah, I know, there's lots of instances of execs who got paid huge amounts of money and delivered abysmal results...)

	▲	TheGRS 9 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Boards aren't exactly dummies either. If they can see their exec isn't necessary I think they'd make moves to eliminate the positions. But that's in a world where reality meets the hype, and I don't think we're there yet. It gets weirder to think that then anyone with access to the tools and some capital could reasonably make their own company to battle it out with the big guys, but that future is a lot hazier.
	▲	SpicyLemonZest 9 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Not really, not unless you're C-suite or your org size is in the thousands. When Google's looking for a VP to run a 100 person department, they care about your experience running similarly sized orgs as much as they care about your ability to achieve business results. People make fun of empire building but it's absolutely rational on the individual level.