I Fired My Product Team and Replaced Them with AI (opens in new tab)

This reads like /r/linkedinlunatics. Same writing style. Down to a T.

> Last week, I shipped Flatty,

It's a 145 line shell script.

AI is... fine... but can produce questionable quality. Is this person qualified to verify the accuracy and security of the AI output beyond "it works"? Can they also package and host it, or are they going to ask us to visit their website at "C:\inetpub\wwwroot"?

Looks like the AI didn't generate a .gitignore file and ignore the .ds_store file that shouldn't be checked into source control. I think my job's ok for at least another few days.

> a plain text format AI models can understand and reason over in entirety.

I believe anthropomorphizing models, thinking they "understand and reason", will be the downfall of many managers who think replacing engineers and programmers will be the solution to all their problems. Yes, if you have an unproductive team, replacing the team with AI will apparently produce an alternative much quicker, but there will be plenty of bugs, errors, and omissions, because you won't really be getting the understanding and reasoning you thought you were acquiring, and you could end up needing another human team to fix all those new problems.

Yeah, that'll go well.