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

Post by I-M-S » Thu, Aug 27, 2026, 12:23 PM UTC

throwatdem12311 wrote: post #455

LIMEVINCE wrote: post #365

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The founders who become CEOs are generally the better ones. The ones that draw universal hatred are usually hired by the board of public companies, to enact unpopular measures to ensure shareholder returns, such as firing expensive developers to make room for cheap AI; or unfairly denying health care to policy holders (like Luigi's alleged victim); etc. The relatively rare heartless corporate CEO also receives dispro…

Luigi Mangione pleaded guilty.

Post by Gormo » Thu, Aug 27, 2026, 12:25 PM UTC

crnkofe wrote: post #433

To be fair I think its far easier to automate leadership jobs despite how they believe in greater self-worth. As a developer I keep running into problems that require some measure of creativity to solve or workaround. And regardless of how many years I've been in the industry I'm not running out of issues. They just keep getting more obscure. On the other hand leadership communication and problem resolution seem like…

Post by MiddleEndian » Thu, Aug 27, 2026, 12:30 PM UTC

fwip wrote: post #478

petcat wrote: post #467

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> I think its far easier to automate leadership jobs I have the opposite opinion. I've never been a CEO, and have intentionally avoided any sort of manager/C-level opportunities at all the various companies I've worked specifically because they require a lot of effort at personnel management, investor relationships, customer relationships, and generally things requiring having to talk to people . That kind of thing j…

Genuine question: am I missing some sarcasm here? When you say a CEO has to "talk to people", and then say it can't be done by a chat bot. That's literally the only thing a chat bot can do.

Post by [deleted] » Thu, Aug 27, 2026, 12:31 PM UTC

philipallstar wrote: post #420

gla67890543 wrote: post #415

Lol!! Don't forget. This is a modern day class war. This current LLM based so called AI, could have easily used for automating simple tasks and employees could have easily provided with 3 day work week. The goal is to monopolize human knowledge with all the stolen data and make profits from it.

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Post by ozgung » Thu, Aug 27, 2026, 12:32 PM UTC

philipallstar wrote: post #420

gla67890543 wrote: post #415

Lol!! Don't forget. This is a modern day class war. This current LLM based so called AI, could have easily used for automating simple tasks and employees could have easily provided with 3 day work week. The goal is to monopolize human knowledge with all the stolen data and make profits from it.

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