I kinda wonder if it would not be so bad, if a company asked chatGPT “prompt the engineers for status updates occasionally, then take their responses and produce high-level summaries for department heads” or whatever.

On their side, the engineers might even ask it “summarize my tickets and come up with an optimistic, business-friendly high level storyline.”

stop "prompting" me and pay attention. I do SO much communication with what I'm working yet it's not enough and I also need to do YOUR job for you. And manage your kanban. And compile all the things I've done at the end of my term. Can't wait for AI to replace you, you are useless.

The only time I see synergies is when we talk about what task to take on next and why.

Indeed. And ChatGPT already can babysit burnout engineers.

(which has been major time sink of engineering managers that I know).