It Seems Obvious That AI Will Replace Zuckerberg Within 12 to 18 Months

It Seems Obvious That AI Will Replace Zuckerberg Within 12 to 18 Months(medium.com)

6 points by samsmithy 1 year ago | 1 comment

scrubs 1 year ago |

I do not like this article. I do not learn how to manage better. I do not understand why managing is hard. The diffusion between individuals, organization, and science/technology never got on to the table, because it never got into the restaurant. It's a glaring omission. I do not learn what management should aim for. I am not learning what successful management was like before computers: think post WWII advances in tech+manufacturing. So how can I assess if AI --- forget making things better or worse for me or the other guy --- is even registering in the universe of measurable change?

I am not per se force fed ... whence this comment ... but there's a running unchallenged theme of brittle otherness between tech and business that, if this was a movie, is like the first 45 minutes of the Breakfast club (snark, derision, insecurity, anger, immaturity etc.) before the kids grew up and learned something. The OP never gets me to a place where I want to learn, grow, or do better. Here's an example:

    "What’s particularly fascinating is how these proclamations are 
    enthusiastically amplified by two distinct groups: middle managers
    who’ve never written a line of code beyond an Excel formula, and 
    that special breed of commentator who’s long resented 
    programmers..."

The article also contains pictures which drive this point more with apes, robots.

The thrust of the article is advanced by python code which amounts to the same, sad ``pattern match" the OP decries: a linear, finite list of things with 1D real value score. Life is far more complex than that.

The article is also replete with references to ``laws" which, I have noticed over the years, HN likes. It's the tech equivalent of an American Southerner with a catchy one-liner: it seems pithy, smart, unique, and powerful all at the same time:

    “Technology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand 
    what they do not manage and those who manage what they do not 
    understand.” — Putt’s Law

Yah - well - the main users of American Southerner catchy lines in media are American Congressmen. America thinks Congress sucks.

Nobody who cares about management, or people, or organizations, or science, or really anything in the adult world thinks about things the way the article does minus OP.

The article --- if we assume the OP is underneath on the same page with me here --- is graphics+English+rhetoric performance art pushed around the world by Ethernet. Otherwise it's the kind of simplistic nonsense we could do without.

Wanna do better? Read a book:

The clearest, shortest, smartest read you'll run into deftly combining organization, management, and quality which, as engineers in the software world, we could do a lot better at:

https://www.amazon.com/What-Total-Quality-Control-Japanese/d...

A focus on dynamics between individuals, teams, and organizations:

https://www.amazon.com/Human-Element-Productivity-Self-Estee...

As for the tech, CS, science, math parts of the equation ... HN is a wonderful resource.

"What’s particularly fascinating is how these proclamations are enthusiastically amplified by two distinct groups: middle managers who’ve never written a line of code beyond an Excel formula, and that special breed of commentator who’s long resented programmers..."