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Ben Werdmuller

"The problem tends to show up when a CEO is handed an agentic tool like Claude Code, and has it create something, which will work just fine, and thinks “oh, wait, why do we need so many people, when I can just sit here and make things work?”

This is a bad CEO." #AI https://werd.io/the-honest-truth-about-leaders-who-want-to-replace-their-workers-with-ai/

The honest truth about leaders who want to replace their workers with AI

"The problem tends to show up when a CEO is handed an agentic tool like Claude Code, and has it create something, which will work just fine, and thinks “oh, wait, why do we need so many people, when I can just sit here and make things work?” This is a bad CEO."

Ben Werdmuller
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Show threadTom Brown🏒19h ago
@ben yes, i've been thinking i would like an update to rushkoff's "get back in the box"
Show threadJay Deiman15h ago

@ben Having personally just left Meta a couple of months ago, this was *exactly* the case with Zuckerberg. He farted around with Claude and said "we didn't need all these engineers" and fired 10% of the company. They're all idiots.

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Show threadquixote7h ago
@ben Plus, there is a massive, giant, category difference between "expert" "agentic" "AI", trained on very specific data sets used as a toolto help human decisionmaking, and, on the other hand autocomplete / chatbot / general "AI", trained by stealing the whole web and hallucinating freely.