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

Post by lmaj » Fri, Aug 28, 2026, 6:04 PM UTC

glouwbug wrote: post #654

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If a ceo can disappear for months and still return into a company that isn't on fire,it means they have a functional company. It means there are processes and people in right places to run things in a continuous manner. This isn't as common as people might think. I've seen many companies where people can't survive for a few days without ceo because the position is tied to a million things( often unnecessarily). There…

Right, if a janitor can leave the hallways for a week and they're still clean on his return we should let him go

Post by mfuzzey » Fri, Aug 28, 2026, 8:10 PM UTC

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That is simply a result of evolution as a species. We have oddly moved beyond where we potentially needed to be as a species for the financial benefit of a few and now we are reversing in quality of life due to the focus being on financial gain. Western citizens live a more selfish and worse life overall in terms of individual wealth, buying power, job availability, overall health, than say 20/30 years ago.

We definitely have problems, but I'd check those stats. When you do that, you see something interesting. There are three things, the "three devils" as I heard one article call them, that are largely responsible for the perceived decline vs 20-30 years ago: the cost of housing, health care, and college tuition. Of those housing is the worst because it's the most universally unavoidable. Ignore housing, health care, an…

Post by literalAardvark » Fri, Aug 28, 2026, 8:30 PM UTC

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> Sure they can - especially when conferences are designed to have an API. This sounds about as realistic as all of the crypto and blockchain people talking about distributed governance and such. The API part and agents pulling data is fine, I doubt they'd be running a business though, since something tells me that sort of thing is gatekept way more even from other people. For a cool fictional portrayal of AI busines…

To me it's sounds 1000x more likely than AI that can write complex software. I guess it's not shocking that people fall for all the narrow scoped demos. They fell for the trap that believing software is easy when it's the hardest thing an intelligence can do. Show me syntax I'm impressed, show me how you manage your state and invariants and I'm horrified.

Post by ouraf » Fri, Aug 28, 2026, 8:54 PM UTC

Post by davidguetta » Fri, Aug 28, 2026, 11:45 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…