[joe_mamba]

>I actually argue that AI will therefore impact these levels of management the most.

Not AI but bad economy and mass layoffs tend to wipe out management positions the most. As a decent IC, in case of layoffs in bad economy, you'll always find some place to work at if you're flexible with location and salary because everyone still needs people who know how to actually build shit, but nobody needs to add more managers in their ranks to consume payroll and add no value.

[bjt12345]

A lot of large companies lay off swags of technical staff regularly (or watch them leave), and rotate CEOs but their middle management have jobs for life - as the Peter Principe states, they are promoted to their highest respective incompetence and stay there because no CEO has time to replace them.

AI will transform this.

[joe_mamba]

Disagree with the "jobs for life" part for management. Only managers who are there thanks to connection, nepotism or cronyism, are there for life as long as those shielding them also stay in place. THose who got in or got promoted to management meritocratically don't have that protection and are the first to be let go.

At all large MNCs I worked at, management got hired and fired mostly on their (or lack thereof) connections and less on what they actually did. Once they got let go, they had near impossible time finding another management position elsewhere without connections in other places.

[mraza007]

This is so true Especially with middle managers they are they the ones that are hit the hardest

[joe_mamba]

Yes I was talking about middle managers mostly. Upper management, C-suite, execs are mostly protected from firing unless they F-up big time like sexual assault, hate speech, etc.