AI Won't Replace You, but a Manager Using AI Will

Post by farrukh23buttt » Tue, Apr 07, 2026, 12:07 PM UTC

throwaw12 wrote: post #10

lan321 wrote: post #8

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Time/working hours and pay. It'd be nice to have a company with only CTO-level engineers, but no one can afford that or even find enough workers at a certain scale, regardless of pay. It makes sense that with AI, you can have architects who haven't written code in 5 years produce acceptable code, but I don't know many people high up the chain who'd say they have the time or desire for that. Until your level's backlog…

> It'd be nice to have a company with only CTO-level engineers, but no one can afford that The point I was trying to make is that, if AI is accurate for Engineering work, why do we think its not accurate for PM job, if it is accurate for PM job, then it should be accurate for others as well. Subsequently, it makes agent swarms accurate. So you will have 1 CEO talking and creating the product, then expose another chan…

Post by throwtillitstix » Tue, Apr 07, 2026, 2:01 PM UTC

mathieuh wrote: post #6

The way I look at it is I just need to get through the next year or so. I also don't believe AI is going to replace everyone, but I do believe that a lot of "leaders" are going to make cuts. They all read the same blogs and listen to the same podcasts and once one makes a move they seem to tend to follow each other. Maybe it's wishful thinking on my part but I still don't see AI replacing absolutely everyone. As some…