Yeah, this is what I think of whenever someone tells me that AI is going to unlock the power of human judgement in an engineering organization. The first thing they did was enable managers exercising bad judgement to fire the people who would allegedly use this tool to exercise their own good judgement.
I keep having this nagging idea in the back of my head: "it's a LOT easier to have an LLM replace management in a company, even all the way up the CEO, than it is to replace engineers, or the cleaning lady, plumber, cashier, ..., literally anyone outside of management. A LOT easier"
"Robert Half reached a similar conclusion. Nearly one-third of hiring managers admitted eliminating positions because of AI, only to hire people back when reality intervened."
Wow, nearly one third of manager who took the decision to fire are going to "take responsibility" any second now? That's a lot.
Any second now ...