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>I expect that a lot of future work will be what we would call today "managerial" type of work. God, I hope not. We already have done something akin to that to

>I expect that a lot of future work will be what we would call today "managerial" type of work. God, I hope not. We already have done something akin to that to avoid job loss from prior technology advances; hence the increase in unnecessary bureaucratic and administrative jobs across government and private industry. If the next evolution of the workforce is everyone is in management and the machines do all the work, then we're almost assuredly repeating the same mistake by giving people unfulfilling, pointless busy work (I've had managers who have viewed their responsibility as 'to bring leadership', and I've certainly seen plenty of middle managers whose existence was solely to take responsibility for failure and to pass bad news downwards; they had no decision making authority) just to generate a paycheck. Certainly, given the managers I've had, you're going to have a lot of bad ones, even if they're not pointless.

antisthenes 10y ago
I think you misinterpreted what the parent comment was trying to say. My take-away from it has been that the new "managerial" role will include much more responsibilities and more "hats" to wear. In other words, the manager will have to be the subject matter expert, the business analyst, the project manager and the administrator, all rolled into one. So, in the case of banking, the "manager" will identify the need to say, automate the underwriting process for handing out institutional loans. They will design a list of tasks, create functional requirements, create constraints and the desired outcomes based on input values. They will also be responsible for providing everything necessary for the actual engineer team and their interaction with the QA team, as well as reporting to the executives. In short - expect to see more overlap between senior IT roles and product/resource management, and more responsibilities rolled into single roles. People who can't adapt will be out of jobs.
executesorder66 10y ago
Well then mabye a huge portion of the population can go into the arts. I am a developer, but I really would not mind being paid to play guitar all day.

antisthenes 10y ago

I think you misinterpreted what the parent comment was trying to say. My take-away from it has been that the new "managerial" role will include much more responsibilities and more "hats" to wear. In other words, the manager will have to be the subject matter expert, the business analyst, the project manager and the administrator, all rolled into one. So, in the case of banking, the "manager" will identify the need to say, automate the underwriting process for handing out institutional loans. They will design a list of tasks, create functional requirements, create constraints and the desired outcomes based on input values. They will also be responsible for providing everything necessary for the actual engineer team and their interaction with the QA team, as well as reporting to the executives. In short - expect to see more overlap between senior IT roles and product/resource management, and more responsibilities rolled into single roles. People who can't adapt will be out of jobs.

executesorder66 10y ago

Well then mabye a huge portion of the population can go into the arts. I am a developer, but I really would not mind being paid to play guitar all day.