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Probably the best description of working with LLM agents I've read
I don't think the idea is that you're eliminating the mythical great CEO in the 99th percentile. You're eliminating the bottom 80% of MBA-like wall of text CEOs who provide minimal value while siphoning millions in capital that could instead be invested back into the business.
Idk, I tend to think that people in positions of leadership overestimate their competence and ability to actually effect positive change in an organisation. They're kind of a monkey in the cockpit that we get to point at and say "Because of the monkey we are now doing x, y, z", but whether that monkey is a primate or a probability distribution seems irrelevant. We just watched the entire tech industry trend-follow and overhire, then layoff the overhires without any accountability as to how it happened, and you're positing there's some intangible skill here that a probability distribution can't replicate? Doubt.
Tl;dr - I think executive leadership is careening towards a reckoning that even its entrenched cronyism will be unable to avert. It will take one automated COO or CEO and the whole MBA house of cards will come tumbling down. Real domain expert CEOs will always be around, but the MBA plant will go the way of the support agent.
How is that possible?
Better your kids than mine. If you think that’s what is happening on social media your children are screwed.