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What makes CEOs different is they have a wild idea, with enough naivety and passion to pursue it, and hopefully the partners that will get them there.

The secret sauce is execution.

Hired CEOs are there to execute a board vision.

Made CEOs are there to execute their vision.

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I get some wild ideas out of LLMs too, is that all CEOs are bringing to the table?

lol obviously no.

Their level of expertise, access, relationships, etc all scale with the business. If it’s big, you need someone well connected who can mange an organization of that size. IANAE but I would imagine having access to top schools would be a big factor as well.

Can LLMs execute on their ideas?

Yes, tool calling.

Depends what the tool to be called is, not everything has an API, especially anything that relates to other humans.

If you can figure out a way to collect and parse information needed to make executive decisions via LLM+tool calls, you would be a billionaire overnight. There’s a reason that it takes a human in these roles and people w/ 0 organizational/executive experience fail to understand just how complex they are.

So how do they expect them to accomplish the even harder task of programming?

Looks like a CEO's job nowadays is to find out what the latest hype train is, and instruct the company to ride it.

Who said either was easy or able to be automated currently? I'm talking about actual users of tools trying to automate, not hype-driven investors or journalists. Both programming and executive decision making are hard, don't make the mistake of thinking your job hard or special while others' are easy, it's the same exact thing artists tried to do when Stable Diffusion came out. Turns out, it's all hard.

It can tell other people what to do, just like CEO. You know LLM is having the vision and employees will execute. Now where is the multibillion package?

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