Have you had AI manage anything? They have a terrible long-term planning ability. They appear to be able to plan ahead, but once tested they only fight fires and sit idle when everything is okay.

Even if LLMs could be capable managers, today out-of-the-box, they’re not.

> Have you had AI manage anything? They have a terrible long-term planning ability. Even if LLMs could be capable managers, today out-of-the-box, they’re not.

This is pretty much the case for just about all jobs. AI, right now, sucks. I don't think there's any field or job title where AI has replaced all the human workers. The place I see it most in the wild are those useless AI chatbots on websites, and even there humans are still working in those positions (usually past the initial AI filter). AI is not fit to replace actual workers because it isn't "intelligent" enough to handle even the most basic and remedial jobs literal children perform. That's why there are still humans taking drive-thru orders, even after companies with billions of dollars to spend have tried to use AI to get rid of them all.

That could always change though, and by the time AI can understand "I want a #1 and a coke" well enough to replace all drive-thru order takers, AI good enough to replace a lot of mangers won't be very far behind. Depending on the quality of the manager anyway... I've had some managers who were good enough that I doubt AI will ever be good enough to do better, but I've also had managers who were so bad they probably could have already been effectively replaced by a complicated enough spreadsheet.

> Even if LLMs could be capable managers, today out-of-the-box, they’re not.

Out-of-the-box I think most humans are bad at nearly everything.

> Have you had AI manage anything?

I had perl scripts manage everything: The idea of software running a company is not even slightly far-fetched. What's new is if you actually know how the business works, you can absolutely tell a computer how to do it.

And that is important, because it means if you are struggling to get the AI to manage anything, I have to tell you that is a strong signal do not know what a manager does or should do.

oh they won't be using ai for managing anything. people will be building their own businesses, without the pointless bureaucracy and management.