John Carmack: From a DM, just in case anyone else needs to hear this

Re:John Carmack: From a DM, just in case anyone else needs t... by ghaff on Sunday March 19, 2023 @11:21AM (#35219857)

Good managers shield their reports from a lot of the crap that is inevitable at scale in a large organization. A large company can't just have individuals and small self-managed teams go off and do whatever they feel like. And, yes, if you just cut out all the intermediate layers, the VP with 150 direct reports will simply have to resort to automation based on simplistic metrics. "You didn't produce enough lines of code last week. If that happens again, you will be placed on a performance plan and then terminated if the situation doesn't improve in 2 months."

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Re:John Carmack: From a DM, just in case anyone else needs t... by 6510 on Sunday March 19, 2023 @11:51AM (#35220195)

> A large company can't just have individuals and small self-managed teams go off and do whatever they feel like.

Right but how much of that is because humans don't scale? With the AI, if it can do a thing well enough it can do it 100 000 times per day.

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Re:John Carmack: From a DM, just in case anyone else needs t... by josephg on Sunday March 19, 2023 @05:56PM (#35224093)

I think its simply because upper management doesn't trust the people they've hired.

In my mind, having individuals and small self managed teams go off and do whatever they feel drawn to do is exactly how a good company is run. - So long as those teams and individuals talk to (& seek advice) from the rest of the company when their work has impacts outside the team. The book Reinventing Organizations by Laloux talks about this a lot, and how it works in some companies today.

The reason it doesn't happen more is that upper management doesn't trust their employees and they don't feel in control when people just do things.

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Re:John Carmack: From a DM, just in case anyone else needs t... by highwaylights on Sunday March 19, 2023 @07:07PM (#35224721)

Literally all of those layers including the VP could be replaced right now.

All those jobs do is push emails rewording other emails to other people pushing email.

I feel like eventually every company will have a single a figurehead that’s fed instructions but believes it’s original thought and is told by the AI what a great idea they just had all day long.

A bit like the Captain from Wall-E.

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