[jmye]

This is such nonsense. “You actually only need engineers who will always perfectly prioritize their workflow and will always precisely identify the right strategy for the product independently and any management at any level whatsoever is unnecessary and none of those people actually work anyway” is entry-level noise. I get that it’s popular to think that the entire organization is worthless and that you are the only hero anyone needs, but come on.

That you don’t understand or can’t comprehend what someone is doing does not, at all, mean that they aren’t doing anything or that they have no value.

[oska]

Paraphrasing someone so badly, as you have done above, is not good faith. And the GP is basically talking about 'Bullshit jobs', the subject of which David Graeber wrote a well regarded, well received book on [1], [2].

[1] https://www.penguin.com.au/books/bullshit-jobs-9780141983479

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit_Jobs