I’ve seen this take and it just feels like it’s coming from an IC who resents their manager or doesn’t understand the role. Thing is there are plenty of useles

I’ve seen this take and it just feels like it’s coming from an IC who resents their manager or doesn’t understand the role. Thing is there are plenty of useless managers. There are also useless ICs and useless C-suite execs. GenAI might replace them all. A good middle manager (any manager really) needs to have a degree of empathy to keep people motivated. They need to read beyond the status updates to understand what’s actually happening. You can easily replace junior engineers with genAI because most of that role was automated training the models from all the stuff junior engineers read. It’s going to be a disaster if you think posting status updates to a glorified slack bot is going to give you the same outcomes as a good manager who knows how to manage humans.