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Re: CEO fired developers to make room for AI. Developers create open source AI CEO

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I get it’s a joke, and often a frequent cynical joke made here, but I actually think it’s a good thought experiment. Almost like a new Turing test The thought experiment, to be clear, is building an artificially intelligent CEO or company founder with the intent of generating profit. If this AI can turn a profit, it has passed this new test Of course, by the time this new AI starts turning a profit, it will be maximi…

You're describing the Tendency of the Rate of Profit to Fall[1], which, I'm sorry, is a Marxist idea so it's automatically wrong.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tendency_of_the_rate_of_profit...

Re: CEO fired developers to make room for AI. Developers create open source AI CEO

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

> What does a CEO(and other managers) do really? The answer is to be responsible to the business. The buck stops at the CEO. Therefore, their responsibilities are technically everything in the entire company. And I think many people who have only worked for other people underestimate how valuable that responsibility is.

Many people observe reality, where the workers end up being the ones held accountable for the CEO's decisions, not the CEO.

Workers are not legally or financially accountable for any of that. That is the whole point of a "job". I think you are confused.

Re: CEO fired developers to make room for AI. Developers create open source AI CEO

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CEO here, thanks just fired all my C suite team,

https://github.com/SenteLabsAI/OpenExecutive/blob/main/packa...

“Walking away costs you the deal. Signing costs you the company. The math is obvious in retrospect; harder in the moment when there's quota pressure”

such valuable, should I say load-bearing insights

Other gem from my new CFO:

“The financial statements are the result. The variance analysis is where the operating insight lives.”

And my new C(3-)PO just told me

“If we removed all sales involvement, what % of revenue would we still get? #5 is the honest PLG test. If the answer is 60%, PLG is the actual motion and the rest is overlay.”

Re: CEO fired developers to make room for AI. Developers create open source AI CEO

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I’m all for productive people, brilliant engineers. I still get dirty with codes/work all the way down to the newly hired fresh out of college kids, to the production architects that shapes multi-million, if not billions, of P&L. I’m also very lucky to be included in key decision making, planning, negating amongst the boards of C-Suites, Directors, VPs. A very personal view but many developers/engineers fail to see t…

I think a lot of this kind of talk treats the C-Suite as special, mystical "visionary" people who Know Things We Can't Know, and by virtue of this otherworldly magical power, are uniquely qualified to do their jobs. Like the average person with basic knowledge of his business and industry can't possibly choose one service provider out of 10 bids, or set business priorities, or drive and enforce culture. We're not talking about wizardry here.

People always dunk on me for saying this outrageous statement, but if you put me in charge of a random Fortune 500 company, I give myself a 50% probability of the company performing better than if its real CEO was in charge, and a 50% probability of it performing worse. I really don't think these guys bring as much to the table as they think they do and as much as the general public seems to think they do. Business success does not come from paranormal insight and abilities.

I think you could randomly nominate CEOs from the set of the general population with, say, a minimum of a college degree, and the randomly nominated CEO's performance would not statistically differ from "qualified" CEOs.

Re: CEO fired developers to make room for AI. Developers create open source AI CEO

#47
post #18

I get it’s a joke, and often a frequent cynical joke made here, but I actually think it’s a good thought experiment. Almost like a new Turing test The thought experiment, to be clear, is building an artificially intelligent CEO or company founder with the intent of generating profit. If this AI can turn a profit, it has passed this new test Of course, by the time this new AI starts turning a profit, it will be maximi…

Doesn't the incentive here, lead to privatizing the AI and possibly releasing a different product to the public - or at least with a delay? (not too unlike how the frontier labs work today).

Re: CEO fired developers to make room for AI. Developers create open source AI CEO

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The best use of AI is to replace CEOs, C-Suite, politicians and bureaucrats. Let them feel the heat for the first time in their life. Interested folks can start by putting in shareholder resolutions with the proposal and the prompts that would replace CEO. SKILLs.md?

Feel the heat? As in, be punished? For what, exactly?

Wage theft
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