top | item 47064966

(no title)

Henchman21 | 11 days ago

I don't buy this at all. There's significantly more to management than tracking and hitting metrics. You have to actually do the hard part of interacting with people and understanding their needs and so on within the context of work.

I'm sorry, but vomiting up another bulleted list is NOT management. Its giving orders and then culling the % that don't comply. Wildly different things.

discuss

order

darth_avocado|11 days ago

> You have to actually do the hard part of interacting with people and understanding their needs and so on within the context of work.

Which is why it’s surprising that management is salivating at the idea of replacing employees and expecting 1 employee to do the work of 10 with the help of AI agents. If the value you bring is to manage people, you shouldn’t be happy at the idea of fewer people having jobs.

JambalayaJimbo|11 days ago

Management is salivating because their jobs are hard to automate, so they stand to benefit from not having to pay employees as much.

cudgy|11 days ago

> You have to actually do the hard part of interacting with people and understanding their needs and so on within the context of work.

How many human managers actually do that, though? How many websites performed satisfactorily before AI arrived? How well has technology matched what consumers really need or want? Maybe, as a society we have underperformed and nescient AI performs well enough (or even better) in comparison.