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CEO fired developers to make room for AI. Developers create open source AI CEO
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Re: CEO fired developers to make room for AI. Developers create open source AI CEO
#132Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
> AI needs values and AI needs a system that can tell whether decisions are good or not Well, so do most CEOs.
There are hundreds of thousands of CEOs of companies you've never heard of.
Re: CEO fired developers to make room for AI. Developers create open source AI CEO
#133A serious point about this is that it's an AI that's an organization. This matters. People laughed at Gas Town, and at that "Fences, not Sandboxes" article yesterday.[1] They're both AIs set up as an organization, not an emulated human. They're both expensive to operate, because the AI members of the organization spend a lot of time talking with each other. They're both applied to frivolous problems. Now we have the…
> This is a different kind of AI - corporate-level AI.
So the responses will be even more incoherent than Opus 5?
Re: CEO fired developers to make room for AI. Developers create open source AI CEO
#134Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Real-time democracy running a business This is not a competitive advantage
Neither is dictatorship?
It is.
The best products are usually from single minds with a strong vision. "Too many cooks in the kitchen" is a phrase for a reason.
Your least favorite products are designed by committee or a vision less person following trends.
Re: CEO fired developers to make room for AI. Developers create open source AI CEO
#135Based on my observations, the most important characteristics of a CEO is to be over 6ft, and to walk about looking important. CEO jobs are safe until the humanoid robots have mastered this skill.
Shit, why ain't I a CEO, then?
Based on my observations, ahem research, you must not have fired developers to make room for AI. Therefore, you are not qualified to be a CEO.
Re: CEO fired developers to make room for AI. Developers create open source AI CEO
#136What 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…
They manage people. They’re people people.
Re: CEO fired developers to make room for AI. Developers create open source AI CEO
#137Everyone seems to be missing the point of the role of the CEO. The CEO is not some masterful person answering all the questions for the company, I would argue that a CEO should be able to disappear for a year and if they had done their job correctly and assembled a good team the company would do just fine without them. No the purpose of the CEO is to safeguard the Capital that has been invested in the company. That i…
Yes, this is actually a reason why an AI executive could be a formidable alternative in theory.
The CEO is ultimately an employee of the board, and managing the CEO with respect to the board's oversight and interest is a somewhat adversarial challenge.
However, the AI CEO's intentions are fully transparent to the board and entirely pliable to the board's demands. The AI CEO also offers the board the opportunity to retain significant equity shares that materially impact their wealth - in this way AI executives stand to be an even more tantalizing target than fixed labor costs.
Of course, this presumes LLMs will become reliable enough for this, which doesn't seem likely.
Re: CEO fired developers to make room for AI. Developers create open source AI CEO
#138This reminds me of William Gibson's "Burning Chrome", where the head of a syndicate is a Russian AI (Chrome) running things behind a smuggling front. Gibson basically predicted the AI CEO forty years early!
A warning: Don't burn Chrome.
Re: CEO fired developers to make room for AI. Developers create open source AI CEO
#139Based on my observations, the most important characteristics of a CEO is to be over 6ft, and to walk about looking important. CEO jobs are safe until the humanoid robots have mastered this skill.
I'm under 6ft and have never been a CEO, so this appears to check out.
Also, it has 4 legs, so it must be a cat.
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