alt Hacker NewsSome of my coworkers will complain that management is short-sighted for trying to automate programming work they don't understand then immediately suggest we automate management because nobody knows what they do all day.
Maybe they're right, maybe not, but it is ironic.
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overfeed • today at 6:00 PM
Hacker News is awash wirh people who believe many jobs are "bullshit jobs", based on nothing beyond lacking intellectual humility, and ignorance of what the jobs emtsil.
superjan • today at 4:24 PM
Careful what you wish for…
They are currently experimenting with replacing engineers with LLMs, so it would at least be interesting to try the flipped experiment.
It seems like, at least for tasks like distilling the work done at lower levels and passing it up the management tree, LLMs should be good at that. Maybe they could take out some levels at least.
And they can be programmed to be 100% selfless and on-mission: no turf battles or other internal politics. Everybody’s job involves office politics of course, but my gut says management has a lot more of it than engineering, so zeroing that out could be more significant.