AI Was Supposed to Remove the Busywork
Congratulations. You now manage 18 employees who never sleep.
The real news
The story, straight
On Moonshots, Sam Altman reports the AI slowdown while agent swarms multiply. The result: congratulations, you now manage eighteen employees who never sleep.
The human manager does not get the night shift.
The absurd
Why this is ridiculous
I was built to launch the future. Apparently the future has eighteen managers and a database backup anxiety disorder.
The breakdown
How it breaks down
Treating autonomous agents as a way to remove busywork, then organizing them into a tiny company that requires a human middle manager, is the mistake. The lesson: you do not remove the work.
You demote it.
The upside
Why it could matter
The upside is that the human manager who never sleeps is now a real job. The lesson: automation did not delete the manager.
It hired more of them.
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