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As an engineer, I love the idea of flipping the problem on its head. Don't get rid of the engineers; get rid of the CEO. That's brilliant. But if we are seeing
by gnunez 1mo ago
As an engineer, I love the idea of flipping the problem on its head. Don't get rid of the engineers; get rid of the CEO. That's brilliant.
But if we are seeing problems with agents replacing knowledge workers at the coding layer, why assume the executive layer is uniquely immune?
There was an interesting article in the Harvard Business Review about this exact problem. Researchers found that when LLMs are asked for strategic business advice, they tend to converge toward what is popular and trendy rather than necessarily what is best for the particular situation. They called this "trendslop," and described the response as,
"On strategy, LLMs might be more akin to a freshly minted MBA or junior consultant, parroting what's popular rather than what's right for a particular situation."
I really hope this idea works but just thought I'd share some of the research out there.
https://archive.is/OPObK/again?url=https://hbr.org/2026/03/researchers-asked-llms-for-strategic-advice-they-got-trendslop-in-return https://archive.is/OPObK/again?url=https://hbr.org/2026/03/r...
- martythemaniak 1mo agoI'm having a hard time seeing the recent AI layoff mania as anything different.
- mandevil 1mo agoCounterpoint: most human CEO's are doing trendslop as well. At least in the worlds I live in (US technology industry, so either megacap public companies or SV-funded startups). It often seems like all of the VCs, CEOs, and large investors in public software companies are all on the same group-chats and sharing the same ideas with each other, driving lots of this trendslop. From observation of having worked at 7-8 companies as a software dev, it sure seems to me that most CEO decisions could be replaced by AI easier than software dev work can.
- senordevnyc 1mo agoSurprise, surprise: everyone thinks other people’s jobs are easier to automate away than their own.
- joquarky 1mo ago> everyone thinks other people’s jobs are easier to automate away than their own. You live in an ivory tower bubble if you truly believe this Most people aren't even aware that anything even near this level of automation exists.
- senordevnyc 1mo agoOh HN, why must you take everything so fucking literally lol
- holtkam2 1mo agoIt doesn’t need to be perfect - it just needs to be as effective as a human CEO… luckily, many human CEOs suck at their job
- senordevnyc 1mo agoIs the average CEO worse at their job than the average software engineer is at theirs? I highly doubt it.
- aiisjustanif 1mo agoIt’s apples to oranges at the end of the day, the question is why can one be automated and not the other.