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AI CEO – Replace your boss before they replace you
- keiferski 10mo agoThis looks like the perfect counterpart to Boss as a Service: https://bossasaservice.com/ https://bossasaservice.com/
- pygy_ 10mo agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20059894 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20059894 Called it, six years ago :-) I can see boards of directors drooling at the potential savings.
- belter 10mo agoTesla can immediately make a saving of $1 Trillion
- auggierose 10mo agoLove this one.
- tylerflick 10mo agoMusk isn’t getting a trillion. Tesla sales would have to skyrocket.
- koliber 10mo agoImagine that they do skyrocket but the RoboCEO is in charge trillion gets distributed to shareholders.
- pixelready 10mo agoImagine that at least half the shares were held by a sovereign wealth fund that paid dividends to every citizen.
- gamblor956 10mo agoThe package doesn't say who the buyers must be. Musk could just have his other pet companies by Teslas to meet the threshold.
- cyanydeez 10mo agounforuntely, that 1T is because Elon's buddies are on the board. They're a bunch of rich human centipedes.
- dijksterhuis 10mo ago> We don't have meetings, we have collaborative ideation experiences yep, checks out.
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- yojat661 10mo agoCan we also replace shareholders with Ai
- canyp 10mo agoI don't get why people get a boner with CEOs. They are mostly irrelevant, the real power lies further above.
- mikepurvis 10mo agoThey're at the center of the hourglass that exists between external (board members, shareholders, customers, partners) and internal (employees) interests.
- canyp 10mo agoInteresting visualization, never thought of it that way.
- bigstrat2003 10mo agoAlso, the people in charge of CEOs (the board) are generally CEOs themselves. It's a good old boys' club where they all make sure to take care of each other.
- gscott 10mo agoOne mention of 3d printed chicken spins up a new ai CEO, several ai damage control agents, Ai apology, new ai product ads, repeat as needed.
- speed_spread 10mo agoWhy waste GPU cycles when a simple bash script would do?
- zkmon 10mo agoFunny. Infact, the blockchain smart contract (DAPPs) tried this before, by fully automating (they call it democratizing) the decisions. Not sure how it went.
- chasing0entropy 10mo agoCan you design an AI agent that I own, to replace me? This is what the market really wants and is probably one of the ONLY things that doesn't exist. Just let me subscribe to an agent to do my work while I keep getting a paycheck.
- crackalamoo 10mo agoIsn't this kind of the same as an AI copilot, just with higher autonomy? I think the limiting factor is that the AI still isn't good enough to be fully autonomous, so it needs your input. That's why it's still in copilot form
- -_- 10mo agoThat's the premise behind Workshop Labs! https://workshoplabs.ai https://workshoplabs.ai
- IshKebab 10mo agoWhy would the market want that? Don't be stupid.
- geoffmanning 10mo agoThe world doesn't want assholes either but here we are
- georgehotz 10mo agoWho's giving you that paycheck? Why don't they just hire that AI agent themselves and cut out the middle man?
- Mtinie 10mo agoIn this scenario the person who wants to be paid owns the output of the agent. So it’s closer to a contractor and subcontractor arrangement than employment.
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- candiddevmike 10mo agoReally this is the only 10x part of GenAI that I see: increasing the number of reports exponentially by removing managers/directors, and using GenAI (search/summarization, e.g. "how is X progressing" etc) to understand what's going on underneath you. Get rid of the political game of telephone and get leaders closer to the ground floor (and the real problems/blockers).
- dboreham 10mo agoAlso replaces lawyers.
- IgorPartola 10mo agoFrom what I hear, this will not happen. AI keeps absolutely making up laws and cases that don’t exist no matter what you feed it. Basically anything legal written or partially written by AI is a liability. IANAL but have been reading a tiny bit about it.
- Jabrov 10mo agoEhhh just calling a raw LLM is not going to replace anyone and be prone to hallucination, sure. But lawyers are increasingly using LLM systems, and there's law-specific products that are heavily grounded (ie. they can only respond from source material).
- cheema33 10mo agoThe need for lawyers will shrink and is shrinking. My company used to call lawyers for many small little things. Now it is easy to ask an LLM and have the second LLM verify it. For super critical things, we may still call lawyers. And in the court rooms, you will still see lawyers. But everywhere else the need for lawyers will keep going down.
- insin 10mo ago> Now it is easy to ask an LLM and have the second LLM verify it I genuinely can't tell when people are and aren't being serious any more.
- jvanderbot 10mo agoMy boss is a pretty awesome technologist, too, but has a lot of time sunk into business stuff. I sent this along as a joke but I doubt any of us are enthused about working for an AI. It would be cool to automate more of that business stuff but I suspect it's too "soft" to actually automate.
- beng-nl 10mo agoThis is an interesting observation - soft skills may turn out to be hard to automate.
- jvanderbot 10mo agoHow is your AI going to go meet with investors and possible customers? Or present to the board? And AI can't be accountable not really. The whole idea is silly. But as he joked, if it can do PowerPoint he'd let it take over that at least
- didibus 10mo agoJoke aside, I do think think someone should work on a legitimate agent for financial and business decision, management, and so on. Especially "decision making". I find it's one of the things that are tricky, making the AI agent optimize for actually good decisions and not just give you info or options, but create real opinion and take real decisions.
- callamdelaney 10mo agoUnfortunately LLM's aren't good at making decisions.
- bofadeez 10mo agoI know they're supposed to be smarter than a year ago but you could have fooled me I'm in a loop with Opus 4.5 telling it "be logically consistent" and then it says "you're absolutely right" and proceeded to be logically inconsistent again for the 20th time.
- callamdelaney 10mo agoRespectfully ‘be logically consistent’ is not something that a llm would understand on the basis of the fact that it isn’t logical and literally unable to reason in the first place. It’s dumb.
- tbrownaw 10mo agoSo instead of doing that, give it access to use something that's better at that?
- callamdelaney 10mo agoSo then what on earth is the point of it?
- thisisit 10mo agoWhat kind of financial and business decisions? And what will be the metric for “good decision”?
- Animats 10mo agoAw, it's just a joke. I thought someone was ready to really try it. Eventually, there will be AI CEOs, once they start outperforming humans. Capitalism requires it.
- satisfice 10mo agoCapitalism requires that capital is owned and controlled by specific people. So, no, there cannot be an AI CEO. In other words, if you say you have an AI CEO, then that entity will be under the control of someone else, whom you might as well call the real CEO. Just like how Twitter had a “CEO” who was some pliable female who did the bidding of the real CEO: Elon Musk.
- groestl 10mo agoThe way AI (and capitalism really) makes CEOs obsolete is by replacing all companies with just one. So only one CEO needed eventually.
- zurfer 10mo agoThere are shareholders/owners and CEOs. You can certainly have an AI CEO if the board of directors wants that. Although depending on the jurisdiction CEOs might need be humans, but surely not everywhere. And you could even imagine AI owners with something like Bitcoin wallets. So far it wouldn't work because of prompt injections but the future could be wild.
- satisfice 10mo agoIf the "directors" want that, then the directors are sharing the job of CEO. It is simply absurd labeling magic to claim that that AI is the chief executive.
- Octoth0rpe 10mo ago> Capitalism requires that capital is owned and controlled by specific people. That is an overly simplistic description. One can imagine a board of directors voting on which AI-CEO-as-a-service vendor to use for the next year. The 'capital' of the company is owned by company, the company is owned by the shareholders. This is not incompatible with capitalism in principle, but wouldn't surprise me if it were incompatible with some forms of incorporation.
- vanschelven 10mo agoin the same vein as http://developerexcuses.com/ http://developerexcuses.com/ (and presumably many others)
- j45 10mo agoGreat name.
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- tt24 10mo agoThe UI looks good! Is there a reason this is being shared here? Feels like a collection of tired, trite oneliners that I’d expect to see on Twitter rather than here.
- input_sh 10mo agoThank you brand new account, your contributions so far have clearly been more valuable!
- tt24 10mo ago1. This account was created months ago. 2. This doesn’t seem like a very polite or valuable contribution either.
- input_sh 10mo ago...and you haven't contributed anything in those months. You went from one one-sentence-long comment months ago straight into criticising what other people contribute in this thread. Do you think that's fair of you?
- tt24 10mo agoYes, I think it’s fair. I only comment / criticize when it’s particularly egregious or offensive, hence why this account has such a short history.
- andy99 10mo agoAgreed, it’s only superficially funny, there’s a ton left on the table that could have made it actually good, it feels like it doesn’t adequately parody CEOs or AI in a way that indicates any insight.
- coffeecoders 10mo agoHow hard would it be to run a simulator with multiple LLMs. Say, one as the boss and a few as employees. Just let them talk, coordinate, and "work"? Could be the fastest way to test what actually happens when you try to automate management.
- fragmede 10mo agoNot exceedingly so: https://news.ysimulator.run/faq https://news.ysimulator.run/faq
- IshKebab 10mo agoI dunno the comments here perfectly capture HN-ackshewelly! https://news.ysimulator.run/item/4317 https://news.ysimulator.run/item/4317
- ai-christianson 10mo agoThis is quite literally what we've built @ Gobii, but it's prod ready and scalable. The idea is you spin up a team of agents, they're always on, they can talk to one another, and you and your team can interact with them via email, sms, slack, discord, etc. Disclaimer: founder
- krater23 10mo agoAnd they simulate a externalized team where the enterprize that pays the team doesn't knows that it's just AI and just thinks that these chinese/indian/african people of this external team are really bad at what they are doing.
- jayd16 10mo agoCan I get this in an ant-farm mode where I can see them doddle around a cube-farm office?
- ai-christianson 10mo agoGreat idea :)
- aussieguy1234 10mo agoYou can make this yourself quite easily. Choose a UI that lets you modify the system prompt, like open WebUI. Ask Claude to generate a system card for a CEO. Copy and paste the output into a system prompt. There you have it, your own AI CEO.
- sunnybeetroot 10mo agoNow do Dropbox next
- simultsop 10mo agoShut up and take my money.
- jondwillis 10mo agoI love that they’re all called David except for Simon
- coliveira 10mo agoThis is a common thing among their mafia.
- danenania 10mo agoThough I think the CEO role is realistically one of the hardest to automate, I’d say middle management is a very juicy target. To the extent a manager is just organizing and coordinating rather than setting strategic direction, I think that role is well within current capabilities. It’s much easier to automate this than the work itself, assuming you have a high bar for quality.
- damion6 10mo agoLooks like that's a response to Linus and Linux community saying that Qualcomm chips I weren't able to run Linux what hey it's good though at least now there's internal support
- thisisit 10mo agoI like the fun part of it. But this is clearly vibe coded slop. The awful pink colour scheme, clickable buttons which don’t do anything bang in middle of the page, the share button which doesn’t really share etc. And some of the messages keep repeating like carbon footprint etc. Just seems low effort and not in a fun way.
- willis936 10mo agoCounterpoints: this joke isn't worth the effort to make it high quality and the jank is part of the joke. AI slop is garbage, presenting it as otherwise would be missing the point.
- shmerl 10mo agoIs that you, Delamain?
- hbarka 10mo agoOur CEO did not write a customary Thanksgiving email. There was nothing from other C-level leadership. I’ve been around long enough to see this erosion in company culture custom. What is happening? Perhaps an AI CEO would have these subtleties.
- briandw 10mo agoOk so clearly a satire. However I kinda want this. They make some really good points about how an AI would be better than many CEOs. Honestly some of the companies I've worked for would be better with Gemini at in charge. Yes humanity is doomed, but at least I would understand the motivations and we'd have less CEO ADHD moments. (CEO ADHD -> "Some other CEO told me about X, why aren't we doing X")
- caminanteblanco 10mo agoI feel like if I mention technology X in my system context for Gemini, there is a 100% chance that when I ask for hiking recommendations Gemini will say "As a user of technology X, you would appreciate the beauty and elegance of the Cuyamaca National Forest"
- devinprater 10mo agoI hate it when it does that.
- gizajob 10mo agoBecause you’re just talking to a hyper-dimensional markov chain.
- DangitBobby 10mo agoWe all know.
- gizajob 10mo agoThat comment was written by a hyper-dimensional Markov chain.
- arbuge 10mo agoI'd be concerned about all the CEO's reports prompt injecting the boss though. Give me a raise so I can buy her medicine, or my grandma dies...
- tcgv 10mo agoOnly Male AI-CEO avatars? Gender bias checked!
- canyp 10mo agoI was going to mention the same thing, also the page is clearly designed by a woman. Never mind that neither Sundar nor Satya are not white, or that many VPs in the Big Tech world are women. OP seems to have a very distorted view of the corporate world and has villified the white alpha male in her mind.
- artursapek 10mo agoman, why does slop like this get to the front page yet my project I've been slaving away on dies in "New"
- cheema33 10mo agoThe answer is easy, if you choose to accept it. Your project, whatever it may be, is worse than this AI slop. If you think it is not, please share it here. Let us judge it. A little honest feedback might be what you really need.
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- Barathkanna 10mo agoThe site is obviously satire, but the interesting part is the growth tactic behind it. oilwell.app is using a meme page as a distribution engine instead of a standard marketing site. In a crowded AI tooling market, this kind of contrast joke on the front paired with a real product behind it, cuts through noise in a way a normal landing page wouldn’t. People mock the gimmick, but the gimmick is doing exactly what it’s designed to do, get everyone talking.
- seydor 10mo agoIt's easier to replace the ceo and management than the leaf nodes of production. The opportunity for CEO as a service is enormous
- thih9 10mo agoEasier in what way? I’d say this wouldn’t fare better than other recent AI implementations. I.e. I’d guess doing this in practice with current state of the AI and without expert supervision would lead to some catastrophic error relatively soon.
- patrick4urcloud 10mo agonice !
- frag 10mo agoAh fun enough I wrote a post just about that https://open.substack.com/pub/defragzone/p/ceo-is-obsolete?r=7n2a9&utm_medium=ios https://open.substack.com/pub/defragzone/p/ceo-is-obsolete?r...
- mannanj 10mo agolol fun satire and totally true true for the bigger companies the incentive for the board is to replace the excess too.
- beezle 10mo agoThe free version of Gemini says it could not replace the CEO of JP Morgan Chase but that it would make an excellent Chief Risk Officer or Chief Strategist. That would still save a ton of money!
- omneity 10mo agoPerhaps not a CEO but I figure an AI COO could be quite valuable for founder-types like me.
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- tamimio 10mo agoOh no, not the protected class!! AI can and should replace CEOs, Lawyers, and even non surgeon doctors. The fact that AI is always brought up when it comes to software development layoffs (ironically they are the ones who built it) but yet it isn’t impacting the ones that it easily could, raise so many questions, and clearly shows that AI is being weaponized to lower wages of some workers while others are protected by regulations and lobbyists.
- kderbyma 10mo agoMy Last Job could definitely benefit from this…. /s (not)
- leogout 10mo agoNo woman CEO ?
- josefritzishere 10mo agoThis is a little too on the nose.