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

Post by vasco » Thu, Aug 27, 2026, 3:29 AM UTC

edoceo wrote: post #59

jaggederest wrote: post #25

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To paraphrase Andy Grove: > The job of an executive is: to define and enforce culture and values for their whole organization, and to ratify good decisions. (And that's the whole list! Nowhere do you find set tasks or make decisions) To me, that means that they're still pretty essential - on both fronts, AI needs values and AI needs a system that can tell whether decisions are good or not.

If the operation is to distill options into a few choices, and then pick the "best" one then, I think hivemind can win there too. Real-time democracy running a business. For example an open-source project could/would still have a BDFL but, the AI-CEO could do the operational busywork while the BDFL is out talking to humans and presenting at PGCon or some other productive thing.

Post by reillyse » Thu, Aug 27, 2026, 3:32 AM UTC

Post by vasco » Thu, Aug 27, 2026, 3:35 AM UTC

inkyoto wrote: post #61

valleyer wrote: post #32

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I agree. I just thought it was funny that someone was pointing out the legal unaccountability of an AI in this context.

There is no need for two penny sarcasm. I deliberately stopped short of invoking golden parachutes and the numerous other escape hatches available at that altitude, as I am perfectly aware they exist. I am equally aware of chief executives who have departed with remarkable agility from organisations they themselves had first steered off the cliff. My point, however, remains the same: as the letter of the law presentl…

Post by root_axis » Thu, Aug 27, 2026, 3:38 AM UTC

jameslk wrote: post #60

binary132 wrote: post #36

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You’re presuming here that CEOs cause companies to make profit instead of serving as a scapegoat for their often unavoidable market dynamics (at best).

In a 1-person company, who or what generates a profit?

Post by swader999 » Thu, Aug 27, 2026, 3:42 AM UTC

edoceo wrote: post #6

What does a CEO(and other managers) do really? Sometimes the claim is "set vision" - which AI can extract from the collective. Someimes the claim is to prioritize the work (with bias), AI can extract that from the collective too, right? Making resources available to the team? AI. Coordinating between teams? AI. Can the AI do this in a more un-biased way? Can it refine collective intelligence and desire into objective…