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With reductions in workforce numbers, when will they start replacing managers with AI? What is the point of "leadership" when the workers are AI-bots?
Based on my experiences, I doubt that many of the managers are going to be competent prompt engineers.
Look at Musk. He's CEO of six companies (or so), yet has time to run DOGE and constantly post on X.
The real concern should be that telling entry level workers they need to be prompt engineering experts on top of everything else is stupid. We're only making it harder to hire the right people.
We should be focusing on whether someone can get the job done regardless of what strategies they prefer to research a solution.
The easiest job to replace must be the CEO. Look at Musk. He's CEO of six companies (or so), yet has time to run DOGE and constantly post on X.
You need a lot fewer managers if your team is 5-20% what it needed to be a few years ago.
No one is being replaced 1:1, but everyone is going to be downsizing (and that’s mostly the same thing). You need a lot fewer managers if your team is 5-20% what it needed to be a few years ago.
The hype around AI is simply the grifters opportunistically inserting themselves and clueless investors wanting to stop potential bleeding.
Nobody would have believed it 10 years ago, but today AI is more likely to replace a concept artist than an accountant, so it's not beyond imagination to replace a manager even if the ICs are still human.
AI excels at summarization, which is a big part of the job for a lot of managers. They gather information, go to meetings, write reports, and generally re-share information appropriate for whatever audience.
At a lot of companies, the lowest level managers don't make a lot of decisions either. Tech leads make technical decisions, PMs make product decisions, and the skip-levels (e.g. Directors, VPs) make staffing decisions.
In practice, I don't think humans will report to AIs, but hierarchies might flatten (e.g. ICs report to Directors) and responsibilities might get shuffled around (e.g. some duties get assigned to HR).
If the workers are AI-bots, then I don't really see any skill overlap with management. If you manage only AIs, you are an IC, not management.
The easiest job to replace must be the CEO. Look at Musk. He's CEO of six companies (or so), yet has time to run DOGE and constantly post on X.
I mentioned this to someone the other day, and they rebuffed that part of what you get with a CEO is their network and their ability to network. AI won't replace that, at least not anytime soon.