Maybe it's wishful thinking on my part but I still don't see AI replacing absolutely everyone. As someone who I'd say tends to be in the upper 20% of performers but not setting the world on fire I'm not too worried about my job completely disappearing but I am worried in the short term about layoffs and chaos when loads of people are trying to find jobs at the same time.
Okay, if AI can replace engineer with their Manager, what is stopping replacing manager with their managers and so on until CTO? or if we go with a different direction, AI replacing engineers with PMs, but then PM can be replaced by Solution Architects or Sales people, go even further customer can just create a meeting with AI agent, explain their needs and you don't need PM/SA/Engineers
Lets go even further instead of someone in the company explaining to AI, what if AI explains to another AI their company needs?
It'd be nice to have a company with only CTO-level engineers, but no one can afford that or even find enough workers at a certain scale, regardless of pay.
It makes sense that with AI, you can have architects who haven't written code in 5 years produce acceptable code, but I don't know many people high up the chain who'd say they have the time or desire for that.
Until your level's backlog is empty, you'll always find something better to do than the tasks of your lower-level colleagues, and it'll never become empty.
The point I was trying to make is that, if AI is accurate for Engineering work, why do we think its not accurate for PM job, if it is accurate for PM job, then it should be accurate for others as well.
Subsequently, it makes agent swarms accurate.
So you will have 1 CEO talking and creating the product, then expose another channel to customers where customer agents talk to the company agent.
Problem is, AI is not accurate and problems accumulate, this is why you need engineers, same applies to PMs, if you solely rely on AI writing product docs, mistakes accumulate and your engineers will build totally different product
