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

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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