Ask HN: Who is "safer" in the AI era: IC or management?
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Management. All automation creates more vacuum for bureaucratic nonsense to take over. IC will be worked to the bone, maximizing utilization on whatever precise task still can't be fully automated (grasping arbitrarily shaped and positioned objects) and more management will be added to culture teams or whatever useless functions companies can spend the freed up money on to signal their prowess.
IC. AI is best at high-social status bullshitting where it doesn't matter to you if you get the right answer or not. No wonder the likes of Eric Schmidt and Satya Nadella think it is such a big deal, because it can do their jobs. Did Copilot write this?
https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2025/07/24/recommitting-to-...
It's hard to see how human intelligence could be behind GAME PASS and the Activision acquisition (Did you know King Games is part of Microsoft?)
https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2025/07/24/recommitting-to-...
It's hard to see how human intelligence could be behind GAME PASS and the Activision acquisition (Did you know King Games is part of Microsoft?)
The integrated circuit is definitely safe in the AI era. Not sure about management.
Can you find any time in recent history where legions of managers where on the streets, unemployed, and IC's were thriving?
Neither? AI is capable of doing both roles.