alt Hacker NewsAI CEO – Replace your boss before they replace you
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Really this is the only 10x part of GenAI that I see: increasing the number of reports exponentially by removing managers/directors, and using GenAI (search/summarization, e.g. "how is X progressing" etc) to understand what's going on underneath you. Get rid of the political game of telephone and get leaders closer to the ground floor (and the real problems/blockers).
Ok so clearly a satire. However I kinda want this. They make some really good points about how an AI would be better than many CEOs. Honestly some of the companies I've worked for would be better with Gemini at in charge. Yes humanity is doomed, but at least I would understand the motivations and we'd have less CEO ADHD moments. (CEO ADHD -> "Some other CEO told me about X, why aren't we doing X")
Our CEO did not write a customary Thanksgiving email. There was nothing from other C-level leadership. I’ve been around long enough to see this erosion in company culture custom. What is happening? Perhaps an AI CEO would have these subtleties.
I love that they’re all called David except for Simon
This looks like the perfect counterpart to Boss as a Service:
How hard would it be to run a simulator with multiple LLMs. Say, one as the boss and a few as employees. Just let them talk, coordinate, and "work"? Could be the fastest way to test what actually happens when you try to automate management.
Only Male AI-CEO avatars?
Gender bias checked!
Joke aside, I do think think someone should work on a legitimate agent for financial and business decision, management, and so on.
Especially "decision making". I find it's one of the things that are tricky, making the AI agent optimize for actually good decisions and not just give you info or options, but create real opinion and take real decisions.
My boss is a pretty awesome technologist, too, but has a lot of time sunk into business stuff.
I sent this along as a joke but I doubt any of us are enthused about working for an AI.
It would be cool to automate more of that business stuff but I suspect it's too "soft" to actually automate.
I like the fun part of it. But this is clearly vibe coded slop. The awful pink colour scheme, clickable buttons which don’t do anything bang in middle of the page, the share button which doesn’t really share etc.
And some of the messages keep repeating like carbon footprint etc. Just seems low effort and not in a fun way.
The UI looks good! Is there a reason this is being shared here? Feels like a collection of tired, trite oneliners that I’d expect to see on Twitter rather than here.
> We don't have meetings, we have collaborative ideation experiences
yep, checks out.
Funny. Infact, the blockchain smart contract (DAPPs) tried this before, by fully automating (they call it democratizing) the decisions. Not sure how it went.
Shut up and take my money.
in the same vein as http://developerexcuses.com/ (and presumably many others)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20059894
Called it, six years ago :-)
I can see boards of directors drooling at the potential savings.
Is that you, Delamain?
Though I think the CEO role is realistically one of the hardest to automate, I’d say middle management is a very juicy target.
To the extent a manager is just organizing and coordinating rather than setting strategic direction, I think that role is well within current capabilities. It’s much easier to automate this than the work itself, assuming you have a high bar for quality.
Aw, it's just a joke. I thought someone was ready to really try it.
Eventually, there will be AI CEOs, once they start outperforming humans. Capitalism requires it.
You can make this yourself quite easily.
Choose a UI that lets you modify the system prompt, like open WebUI.
Ask Claude to generate a system card for a CEO.
Copy and paste the output into a system prompt.
There you have it, your own AI CEO.
Great name.
man, why does slop like this get to the front page yet my project I've been slaving away on dies in "New"
Looks like that's a response to Linus and Linux community saying that Qualcomm chips I weren't able to run Linux what hey it's good though at least now there's internal support
Can you design an AI agent that I own, to replace me? This is what the market really wants and is probably one of the ONLY things that doesn't exist.
Just let me subscribe to an agent to do my work while I keep getting a paycheck.