[bluefirebrand]

> Management has an AI shaped hammer and they're hitting everything to see if it's a nail.

I really think we need to figure out how to cut back on management so we can get back to the business of actually doing work

[ghaff]

Coordinating teams, talking to stakeholders/customers (including spending a lot of time with them), having someone manage individual contributors at some level, etc. is work that can't just be ignored at a company of any size. The only way to avoid (a lot of) it is to be very small and that has its own set of issues.

[bluefirebrand]

Sure, but do we really need four layers of people to do all of that?

It's really common to see just layers and layers of management at companies that get big enough

[ghaff]

For a big enough company? Probably. Someone isn't going to effectively manage 100 or 500 people.

[lyu07282]

I mean don't bite the boot that you can lick amirite

[toomuchtodo]

Unions. What other way is there?

https://www.epi.org/blog/americans-favor-labor-unions-over-b...

[cjbgkagh]

Well how hard would it be to replace management with AI? Perhaps a developer could use AI to recreate the other tasks of the company without all of the overhead of actual people.

[queenkjuul]

Yeah i can't wait to discuss product with a sycophantic chatbot instead of the people who actually have a stake in the product.

Management can and usually does suck but i can reason with a person, for now. And sadly only the product people actually know what they want, usually right when you've built it the way they used to want it lol.

[cjbgkagh]

Sounds almost has hard as writing code

[yencabulator]

Clearly the answer is to replace them with AI.