Bottlenecks. Yes. Company structures these days are not compatible with efficient use of these new AI models.

Software engineers work on Jira tickets, created by product managers and several layers of middle managers.

But the power of recent models is not in working on cogs, their true power is in working on the entire mechanism.

When talking about a piece of software that a company produces, I'll use the analogy of a puzzle.

A human hierarchy (read: company) works on designing the big puzzle at the top and delegating the individual pieces to human engineers. This process goes back and forth between levels in the hierarchy until the whole puzzle slowly emerges. Until recently, AI could only help on improving the pieces of the puzzle.

Latest models got really good at working on the entire puzzle - big picture and pieces.

This makes human hierarchy obsolete and a bottleneck.

The future seems to be one operator working on the entire puzzle, minus the hierarchy of people.

Of course, it's not just about the software, but streams of information - customer support, bug tickets, testing, changing customer requirements.. but all of these can be handled by AI even today. And it will only get better.

This means different things depending on which angle you look at it - yes, it will mean companies will become obsolete, but also that each employee can become a company.