alt Hacker NewsAll of the professions its trying to replace are very much bottom end of the tree, like programmers, designers, artists, support, lawyers etc. While you can easily already replace management and execs with it already and save 50% of the costs, but no one is talking about that.
At this point the "trick" is to scare white collar knowledge workers into submission with low pay and high workload with the assumption that AI can do some of the work.
And do you know a better way to increase your output without giving OpenAI/Claude thousands of dollars? Its morale, improving morale would increase the output in a much more holistic way. Scare the workers and you end up with spaghetti of everyone merging their crappy LLM enhanced code.
"Just replace management and execs with AI" is an elaborate wagie cope. "Management and execs" are quite resistant to today's AI automation - and mostly for technical reasons.
The main reason being: even SOTA AIs of today are subhuman at highly agentic tasks and long-horizon tasks - which are exactly the kind of tasks the management has to handle. See: "AI plays Pokemon", AccountingBench, Vending-Bench and its "real life" test runs, etc.
The performance at long-horizon tasks keeps going up, mind - "you're just training them wrong" is in full force. But that doesn't change that the systems available today aren't there yet. They don't have the executive function to be execs.