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OverpAId – Fire your CEO. Hire the future

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Re: OverpAId – Fire your CEO. Hire the future

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Post by afavour »

vachina wrote: post #7
ForHackernews wrote: post #5

This is a fun joke, but there's a real element of truth to it: A big fraction of senior executives' work is vulnerable to replacement by AI. In other fields, where automation or tooling has enabled technicians to do work that previously required expensive expertise, there's been a drive from management to replace those costly professionals. What's the parallel for executives? Is the CEO market ripe for disruption by…

AI cannot replace CEO the same reason AI cannot replace your girlfriend.

Think you’re going to need to elaborate on that

Re: OverpAId – Fire your CEO. Hire the future

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Post by inanutshellus »

jdw64 wrote: post #4
throw1234567891 wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, gotta go to work and earn a dime to have something to eat, right? It would be great if someone paid for your living while you could just "enjoy life", right? Maybe those suckers who actually enjoy doing stuff and get paid in return.

But I do think you can't enjoy life if you don't work. Pain is the seasoning of life. Of course, my life is full of seasoning and nothing else. Both pain and pleasure are necessary. It's just that there's only pain right now, which is the problem. If AI could just handle the economic activities for me so I could have a little bit of 'pleasure,' that would be great. I just want to do the programming I actually enjoy

Oof. Pain may well be the "seasoning of life" but work is not pain.

Work is the thing that helps one lift society up.

We're all connected beings and one's occupation is how we each contribute to that society. The idea that it's something we suffer through in order to eat is a crummy reversal of the idea of having purpose.

It doesn't matter if one is selling toilets or scrubbing them, each of us is still keeping civilization in motion; giving it life.

Don't enjoy your occupation? Go back to school. Can't afford school? Hunt down people you respect and figure out how to work with or for them.

Re: OverpAId – Fire your CEO. Hire the future

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Post by helsinkiandrew »

ForHackernews wrote: post #5

This is a fun joke, but there's a real element of truth to it: A big fraction of senior executives' work is vulnerable to replacement by AI. In other fields, where automation or tooling has enabled technicians to do work that previously required expensive expertise, there's been a drive from management to replace those costly professionals. What's the parallel for executives? Is the CEO market ripe for disruption by…

> A big fraction of senior executives' work is vulnerable to replacement by AI.

A big fraction of a senior executives' work can also be delegated to others in the company (or outside consultants and services), the thing that can't is being ultimately responsible for making the final decisions - product, people, direction etc.

Re: OverpAId – Fire your CEO. Hire the future

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Post by dist-epoch »

vachina wrote: post #7
ForHackernews wrote: post #5

This is a fun joke, but there's a real element of truth to it: A big fraction of senior executives' work is vulnerable to replacement by AI. In other fields, where automation or tooling has enabled technicians to do work that previously required expensive expertise, there's been a drive from management to replace those costly professionals. What's the parallel for executives? Is the CEO market ripe for disruption by…

AI cannot replace CEO the same reason AI cannot replace your girlfriend.

Talk for yourself.

> Teen boys are choosing AI girlfriends over real ones for "maximum control, zero rejection"

https://fortune.com/2026/04/17/teen-boys-dating-ai-chatbot-g...

> The terrifying rise of schoolboys making AI girlfriends. Boys as young as 12 are now in romantic ‘relationships’ with chatbots, and it’s affecting how they treat girls in the real world

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/05/25/schoolboys-ai-gi...

Re: OverpAId – Fire your CEO. Hire the future

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Post by jdw64 »

inanutshellus wrote: post #12
jdw64 wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But I do think you can't enjoy life if you don't work. Pain is the seasoning of life. Of course, my life is full of seasoning and nothing else. Both pain and pleasure are necessary. It's just that there's only pain right now, which is the problem. If AI could just handle the economic activities for me so I could have a little bit of 'pleasure,' that would be great. I just want to do the programming I actually enjoy

Oof. Pain may well be the "seasoning of life" but work is not pain. Work is the thing that helps one lift society up. We're all connected beings and one's occupation is how we each contribute to that society. The idea that it's something we suffer through in order to eat is a crummy reversal of the idea of having purpose . It doesn't matter if one is selling toilets or scrubbing them, each of us is still keeping civi…

Of course. Apart from tight deadlines and the damages I'd have to pay if I fail, the work itself is enjoyable

Re: OverpAId – Fire your CEO. Hire the future

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Post by mikert89 »

Not a joke, living in NYC, I have met a ton of harvard/yale "CEOs". Read their profile, see them in an all hands meeting, they look incredible. Spend any lengthy unscripted time with them behind closed doors, they are absolutely clueless. The trick is true access to these people is so limited, and usually guarded.

With AI we do have the chance to return to meritocracy

Re: OverpAId – Fire your CEO. Hire the future

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Post by jdw64 »

throw1234567891 wrote: post #10
jdw64 wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But I do think you can't enjoy life if you don't work. Pain is the seasoning of life. Of course, my life is full of seasoning and nothing else. Both pain and pleasure are necessary. It's just that there's only pain right now, which is the problem. If AI could just handle the economic activities for me so I could have a little bit of 'pleasure,' that would be great. I just want to do the programming I actually enjoy

As in, you just want to go back to your comfort zone and not face the realities of life.

I don't want to have a staring contest with reality.

Re: OverpAId – Fire your CEO. Hire the future

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Post by shadowfiend »

dist-epoch wrote: post #14
vachina wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

AI cannot replace CEO the same reason AI cannot replace your girlfriend.

Talk for yourself. > Teen boys are choosing AI girlfriends over real ones for "maximum control, zero rejection" https://fortune.com/2026/04/17/teen-boys-dating-ai-chatbot-g... > The terrifying rise of schoolboys making AI girlfriends. Boys as young as 12 are now in romantic ‘relationships’ with chatbots, and it’s affecting how they treat girls in the real world https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/05/25/schoolboys-a…

... Yeah, that's a replacement for your girlfriend kind of like watching TV is a replacement for eating dinner...
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