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260 pointsby GrumpySciGuy3 hours ago159 comments

Animats an hour ago

A serious point about this is that it's an AI that's an organization. This matters.

People laughed at Gas Town, and at that "Fences, not Sandboxes" article yesterday.[1] They're both AIs set up as an organization, not an emulated human. They're both expensive to operate, because the AI members of the organization spend a lot of time talking with each other. They're both applied to frivolous problems.

Now we have the same concept, applied to a more useful problem. It's time to pay attention. Something important is happening here.

Everybody has been talking about "human-level AI", or "superhuman-level AI". This is a different kind of AI - corporate-level AI. It works and thinks like a company's management. It watches a wide range of data sources and responds to some of them with action, and some with internal discussion within the AIs. It can potentially pay attention to far more inputs than any human. That overcomes a basic problem of corporate organization.

A classic management failure is not paying enough attention to something. This is usually not a problem for computer systems. Humans are bandwidth-limited. Teams of AIs are far less bandwidth-limited. They may soon be outperforming humans for that reason alone.

Think about this for a while. These team AI systems may be very useful.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49423146

vintermann an hour ago

We have some interesting evidence from AI agents. People used to make the plan with a stronger and more expensive model, and then use a cheaper model to do the "grunt work" of implementing it.

But it turns out it's better to do it the other way around. A good plan is easy, implementing it is not.

paytonjjones an hour ago

Your point is well taken, but one thing stood out to me.

> A classic management failure is not paying enough attention to something. This is usually not a problem for computer systems.

This is actually my #1 problem with frontier LLMs. They are plenty smart, but they have no true long term memory, and their context window is not nearly enough for a complex system like a corporation. When my project gets big enough and I'm using a lot of /compact, the LLMs always have the same failure point: they fail to pay attention to something.

When they figure this out, I think it's going to be a very, very big moment.

reachableceo 10 minutes ago

It’s called using systems of record. I use redmine and discourse. Jointly with my stack of agents (COO) (managed by four very high trust humans via OWUI interacting with scoped Hermes profiles ).

I’m adopting this stack under me (CTO) and integrating it into agent zero

lukeify an hour ago

> This is a different kind of AI - corporate-level AI.

So the responses will be even more incoherent than Opus 5?

CTDOCodebases 31 minutes ago

It's funny that when you offload the work to agents they still find away to monopolise each other's time with meetings.

lrem 21 minutes ago

Eh, it’s nothing new in general. My software development (both at work and private) is being done by teams of semi-antagonistic agents. I only get to see code after the grumpy reviewer bot ran out of reasons to be grumpy and the pedantic formalist ensured all specs are still adhered to. Saves on the most expensive resource.

thriw94949494 19 minutes ago

We could use AI to automate some parts of oversight from board members and CEO, without paying millions on golden parashutes.

Prompts like: you are an activist in XYZ, you wrote this book. Not tell us if this decision is ethical, and if you approve it.

Or running entire HR department in AI...

hansvm 19 minutes ago

> An <overinflated point> is XYZ. This matters.

You're probably totally innocent, but this comes across as being AI-written, especially in the context of an AI problem and when your response is pro-AI. For the next 3-12 months (maybe more, we'll see), I suspect you'll have a lot more success if you shy away from those speech patterns.

rkagerer 15 minutes ago

AIs set up as an organization

I hope legislation is never manipulated enough to allow an AI to form a corporation or become it's legal director. With whom would accountability rest? Who would you throw in prison if it acts egregiously enough to warrant such a measure? If it's bots all the way down.

protocolture 13 minutes ago

>With whom would accountability rest? Who would you throw in prison if it acts egregiously enough to warrant such a measure? If it becomes bots all the way down.

Corporations already exist to limit liability and accountability. This would be an extension of their current purpose not some weird deviation from.

arthurcolle 12 minutes ago

this is already possible using common corporate tax & trust strategies. see Wyoming Asset Protection Trust (WAPT), purpose trusts, donor advised funds.

bashtoni 2 hours ago

Based on my observations, the most important characteristics of a CEO is to be over 6ft, and to walk about looking important.

CEO jobs are safe until the humanoid robots have mastered this skill.

Waterluvian an hour ago

You’d think culture and personality fit with a board of directors would be an easier feat for a robot.

SpaceNoodled an hour ago

Shit, why ain't I a CEO, then?

win311fwg an hour ago

Using HN instead of walking around looking important

SlightlyLeftPad 44 minutes ago

Based on my observations, ahem research, you must not have fired developers to make room for AI. Therefore, you are not qualified to be a CEO.

a34729t an hour ago

My SVP is 6'4". 6 measly feet aint cutting it, that's just "king of manlets" territory.

Lammy an hour ago

Reject ‘manlet’ — RETVRN to ‘bantam’ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bantam_(military)

> One of the miners, rejected on account of his size, offered to fight any man there as proof of his suitability as a soldier, and six men were eventually called upon to remove him.

Nition an hour ago

I'm under 6ft and have never been a CEO, so this appears to check out.

m463 40 minutes ago

Also, it has 4 legs, so it must be a cat.

phaedryx an hour ago

I think either gray hair or bald does a lot too.

YZF 11 minutes ago

6 feet balding and gray here. Can pretend to walk importantly. Never felt farther than CEO. Maybe it's a sign I need to start my own company.

seydor 8 minutes ago

Just add some antenna on top

edoceo 3 hours ago

What does a CEO(and other managers) do really?

Sometimes the claim is "set vision" - which AI can extract from the collective.

Someimes the claim is to prioritize the work (with bias), AI can extract that from the collective too, right?

Making resources available to the team? AI.

Coordinating between teams? AI.

Can the AI do this in a more un-biased way? Can it refine collective intelligence and desire into objective goals?

More than a software factory id love to see a manager-factory.

One thing, AI cannot do (yet) is bring the network. Like when you hire folk from Booth or Sloan so you can sell to places that hired Booth and Sloan grads.

nullorempty 3 hours ago

Well, as soon as they start being replaced is there a network to bring.

andsoitis 3 hours ago

> Sometimes the claim is "set vision" - which AI can extract from the collective.

To be an effective CEO, you have to make judgement calls that the collective can’t always have wisdom and context on, is confidential, or requires fast decision making during which there are interactive discussions or negotiations!

Freedom2 2 hours ago

Like RTO mandates which were definitely made with wisdom.

andsoitis 2 hours ago

Not all CEOs did that. Just like all software engineers aren't great or excellent, all CEOs aren't. But to categorically denounce seems rigid.

sandeepkd 2 hours ago

This is highly subjective and a gives an impression that every one is doing a very effective job. The reality is much more grey when you account for so many companies that get shut down.

My personal take, somewhere down the line people feel scared of taking responsibility for more than themselves and their family. This limits the ability for most people to take on such ventures. Not everyone falls in the same bucket but a lot of leadership in todays date is about taking the role without responsibility. They happen to be in the role with the help of network affect and somehow that just amplifies.

andsoitis an hour ago

> This is highly subjective and a gives an impression that every one is doing a very effective job. The reality is much more grey when you account for so many companies that get shut down.

I believe that the average are average.

I don’t believe what I wrote suggests that. I was attempting to be as neutral as possible.

inkyoto 3 hours ago

In the current legal framework, AI can't be held accountable, a human being is required.

That is what the CEO is for – to be on the receiving end of beatings and flogging if the business they are at the masthead of effs something up.

valleyer 2 hours ago

Good point. CEOs of companies are often held personally accountable for corporate malfeasance by "the current legal framework".

fooker 2 hours ago

I understand your sarcasm but that’s what the limited in LLC is for.

Unbounded liability means nobody starts a business, or they do it under the table without responsibility or taxes.

Turns out we want successful private businesses much more than we want to hold a few nasty CEOs accountable.

valleyer 2 hours ago

I agree. I just thought it was funny that someone was pointing out the legal unaccountability of an AI in this context.

inkyoto 2 hours ago

There is no need for two penny sarcasm.

I deliberately stopped short of invoking golden parachutes and the numerous other escape hatches available at that altitude, as I am perfectly aware they exist. I am equally aware of chief executives who have departed with remarkable agility from organisations they themselves had first steered off the cliff.

My point, however, remains the same: as the letter of the law presently stands, AI can't be made accountable – at least not today.

vasco 2 hours ago

The sarcasm was pretty funny so it has some utility, no need to be so serious

nradov 2 hours ago

LLCs and other corporate structures only (mostly) protect employees and shareholders from civil judgments. CEOs and other executives are also at risk of criminal penalties for Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) violations and similar. Actual criminal prosecutions of CEOs have been few, but not zero.

https://archives.fbi.gov/archives/oklahomacity/press-release...

stale2002 2 hours ago

> What does a CEO(and other managers) do really?

The answer is to be responsible to the business. The buck stops at the CEO. Therefore, their responsibilities are technically everything in the entire company. And I think many people who have only worked for other people underestimate how valuable that responsibility is.

rideontime 2 hours ago

Many people observe reality, where the workers end up being the ones held accountable for the CEO's decisions, not the CEO.

matchbok3 2 hours ago

Workers are not legally or financially accountable for any of that. That is the whole point of a "job". I think you are confused.

rideontime 2 hours ago

Are you confusing CEOs with founders, shareholders, etc.? Chief Executive Officer is, in fact, a "job."

NegativeLatency 2 hours ago

Neither are CEOs in our present society

JDups 2 hours ago

When the worker loses their jobs over bad executive decisions, they sure feel like they were pretty harshly financially penalized for those decisions.

SpicyLemonZest an hour ago

Many people observe a limited subset of reality. It's highly visible when a company hits a crisis and people lose their jobs; it's much more common, but much less visible, for a CEO to get an after-hours call about a brewing problem which they must immediately work to smooth over.

sandeepkd 2 hours ago

I wish that was true some how. In real world unfortunately the buck stops at whoever is easy scape goat, at times it can be a CEO

a34729t an hour ago

Rewponsibility is why we pay external consultants!

jaggederest 2 hours ago

To paraphrase Andy Grove:

> The job of an executive is: to define and enforce culture and values for their whole organization, and to ratify good decisions.

(And that's the whole list! Nowhere do you find set tasks or make decisions)

To me, that means that they're still pretty essential - on both fronts, AI needs values and AI needs a system that can tell whether decisions are good or not.

bronson 2 hours ago

> AI needs values and AI needs a system that can tell whether decisions are good or not

Well, so do most CEOs.

parineum an hour ago

There are hundreds of thousands of CEOs of companies you've never heard of.

mrheosuper 2 hours ago

>AI needs a system that can tell whether decisions are good or not.

So they need someone to review AI output huh?

edoceo 2 hours ago

If the operation is to distill options into a few choices, and then pick the "best" one then, I think hivemind can win there too. Real-time democracy running a business.

For example an open-source project could/would still have a BDFL but, the AI-CEO could do the operational busywork while the BDFL is out talking to humans and presenting at PGCon or some other productive thing.

vasco 2 hours ago

> Real-time democracy running a business

This is not a competitive advantage

DoctorOetker an hour ago

Neither is dictatorship?

jeezfrk an hour ago

Business actually treats a pseudo-dictatorship (with the requisite yes-men) as "good leadership".

Most times it's pretty simple, in my experience. A CEO either runs a business as a (1) Sales focus [best deals and vendors] or (2) Marketing focus [best reputation and trends] or (3) Investor focus [best boardroom friends].

Lots of other opinions are usually thrown out until there's really only one facet used for running the company.

vintermann 18 minutes ago

Sure, if by business you mean investors.

parineum an hour ago

It is.

The best products are usually from single minds with a strong vision. "Too many cooks in the kitchen" is a phrase for a reason.

Your least favorite products are designed by committee or a vision less person following trends.

vintermann 17 minutes ago

As long as investors believe this, it matters less if it's true or not.

jaggederest 26 minutes ago

Nope! that's the subtlety. "distill options" is not the CEO's (or any executive's) job.

The way he phrases it, if I remember correctly (and this is by no means the only way to executive, I just really like his framing), is that the way you make decisions is by getting your immediate subordinates to agree, and they iterate. Decisions should be made at the lowest level that they can be made at, and if that's the CEO level, you've made mistakes.

So you make the values list, you make sure that people live by it (up to and including firing people who don't and hiring people who do, which he basically thinks is the whole day to day), and then you bring your subordinates together to agree on decisions. If they don't agree, you send them off to work through it together and come back with consensus (or, less great, compromise). If you have to put your thumb on the scale to get a good decision, again, you're not CEOing well.

Basically if you have to be a dictator, there's no way you can actually effectively do that. Proper leadership is getting people to act the way you would, if you had all the knowledge and perspective they do, but without having to make them do it. Lift them up, empower them, give them the responsibility and tools and values, and then endorse the result.

dan_can_code 2 minutes ago

Enforcing culture is not something I believe is possible. Nobody is going to listen to the C suite suit over their own experience with their colleagues. People just end up saying the right buzzwords to appear that the culture has been adopted, but it will be mostly met with malicious compliance. If the culture is driven by incentives and rewards for behaviour,then that's a whole different ball game.

thelastgallon 2 hours ago

> What does a CEO(and other managers) do really?

Be friends with the board. Negotiate high pay and benefits (for themselves), and a golden parachute in case things go south (which they do most often). Take credit for things that were going to happen anyways. Blame xyz for things that didn't work out.

These are all impossible tasks for AI. AI can't play golf.

conductr 2 hours ago

It’s going to be funny when the Tesla robots start showing up at tee times because the CEO couldn’t make it. Like a meeting agent taking notes for people who didn’t attend

a34729t an hour ago

Chinese humanoid robots are 3 years out from playing a decent round on a par 3 course.

forestrywat an hour ago

Managers coach and develop people. Helping them grow, nurturing their strengths and connecting them with opportunities that help them achieve more.

At least the good ones do.

swader999 an hour ago

Marketing and they hire and fire important people. That's about it though, where we should take the product, what features to do next, partnerships, these are pretty obvious to anyone paying attention.

collingreen an hour ago

I don't think these things are obvious. I've worked at many places that have had big, company-changing forks in the road available to them and navigating those forks wasn't easy (and in my opinion several times we chose wrong). The crowd wasn't always right or even well aligned and sometimes the only agreement was that a middle of the road approach would be worse. My intuition says getting that right takes a lot of luck, good momentum, and a lot of departments working well together (bringing in and communicating market info, broadcasting marketing that works, making good partnerships, etc). The cynic in me thinks one big impact of a ceo is the various cheating and corruption tools that can make some of those things easier or at least less critical to get right (you don't need to make good cybertrucks or convince people to buy them if the government agrees to buy 450k of them as "armored vehicles", for example).

If that kind of thing is easy for you (the honest ones or the clandestine ones) then you might make a really strong entrepreneur/business leader.

expensive_news an hour ago

At my current job, a 10 person startup, the CEOs job is to generate leads, talk to potential customers, and close deals. He, along with the other founders, shape what we work on based on what he thinks it’s possible for us to sell. He’s essential to the business.

At my previous 50k person company I never talked to anyone within 4 levels of the CEO and thought he was useless. But realistically he probably had a somewhat similar job - talking with the board, talking with politicians, and talking with the CEOs of other companies in the effort to lower costs (tax breaks, partnerships, etc) and generate sales (contracts, partnerships, etc).

cybrox an hour ago

Similar, yes, but instead of finding out who else can give you money at 10 people, they have to find out who else they have to give money at 10k people. Leads and lobbies.

vintermann 15 minutes ago

That's a sales person.

volkercraig an hour ago

CEO's exist as a sink for liability. When something goes wrong, they are the fall guys, that's ultimately their job. That's why CEO compensation is generally correlated strongly to earnings and they usually have golden parachutes.

Without a CEO to fire when the business goes south, how is the board supposed to respond? Taking accountability? lmao

SlightlyLeftPad 43 minutes ago

They manage people. They’re people people.

baalimago 15 minutes ago

They ensure the company is funded.

hansvm 5 minutes ago

> can AI do <hard thing>

Not yet. Maybe soon. I'm not placing bets on timelines.

> What do CEOs do

No clue. I'm not there yet. Maybe it's critical. Maybe nothing.

> and other managers

There are a lot of bad managers. I'm halfway not terrible. A significant part of my job is setting technical direction in the same way I did as a staff+ engineer but without the overhead of asking somebody else's permission. Another large part is the "shit shield" function -- somebody thinks they want something, and they either find themselves blocked by me or immediately satisfied with whatever code I'm able to cook up between meetings, not breaking the team's concentration. A huge part is basically just being a teacher, and I love teaching (if it weren't so pessimized by society that might actually be my career). A large part of it is navigating organizational nonsense (for "reasons," I'm rambling, ask if you're curious). And... whatever. My job didn't get easier going into management. Not all of it should have to exist in the abstract, but in any specific company it's still an important function.

jameslk 3 hours ago

I get it’s a joke, and often a frequent cynical joke made here, but I actually think it’s a good thought experiment. Almost like a new Turing test

The thought experiment, to be clear, is building an artificially intelligent CEO or company founder with the intent of generating profit. If this AI can turn a profit, it has passed this new test

Of course, by the time this new AI starts turning a profit, it will be maximized to the extent that it loses its competitive advantage, and then we’re back to square 1. That is, when everyone uses the same AI, nobody has a competitive advantage over anyone else

My current theory is that because of this, it is not possible to build an AI that generates a profit perpetually. Only temporarily. Then human intervention would be required to adjust things to make the AI competitive again. But at that point, it’s no longer an AI driving the profit, it’s its human tinkerer

binary132 2 hours ago

You’re presuming here that CEOs cause companies to make profit instead of serving as a scapegoat for their often unavoidable market dynamics (at best).

jameslk 2 hours ago

In a 1-person company, who or what generates a profit?

root_axis 2 hours ago

One person isn't a company. Legally maybe, but there's no point in a company if you can profitably do all the labor yourself.

jameslk an hour ago

At what point does a company become a company if one person doesn’t make a company? What’s the threshold for non-labor where a company becomes a company?

root_axis 38 minutes ago

I'd start with division of labor as a minimum.

kelseyfrog 2 hours ago

You're describing the Tendency of the Rate of Profit to Fall[1], which, I'm sorry, is a Marxist idea so it's automatically wrong.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tendency_of_the_rate_of_profit...

mannanj 2 hours ago

Doesn't the incentive here, lead to privatizing the AI and possibly releasing a different product to the public - or at least with a delay? (not too unlike how the frontier labs work today).

jameslk 2 hours ago

Yes I would think that would be the endgame goal. But in practice, I’m very skeptical a purely AI-driven executor can stay competitive when the market and government supporting it and surrounding it is driven by humans

euio757 2 hours ago

CEO here, thanks just fired all my C suite team,

https://github.com/SenteLabsAI/OpenExecutive/blob/main/packa...

“Walking away costs you the deal. Signing costs you the company. The math is obvious in retrospect; harder in the moment when there's quota pressure”

such valuable, should I say load-bearing insights

Other gem from my new CFO:

“The financial statements are the result. The variance analysis is where the operating insight lives.”

And my new C(3-)PO just told me

“If we removed all sales involvement, what % of revenue would we still get? #5 is the honest PLG test. If the answer is <30%, PLG is supplementary at best. If the answer is >60%, PLG is the actual motion and the rest is overlay.”

cwillu 2 hours ago

Searching for PLG, I found: “In short, companies that use PLG models gain another revenue-generating channel: the company’s product itself.” What a world we live in, that a company's products being a revenue-generating channel is an innovation worthy of note!

altmanaltman an hour ago

The only thing worse than a human CEO is an AI CEO with power to fire you. People just don't think it will do stupid things, have nonsensicle orders which they have to follow, and likely fire people left right and center.

But oh ho there is no human ceo, must be a good place to work!!

matheusmoreira 2 hours ago

Awesome. There's no reason why AI can't replace all these highly paid CEOs along with the rest of us. Looking forward to the Delamain future.

bigstrat2003 an hour ago

Do you think that they will offer the Excelsior package for sale?

thelastgallon 2 hours ago

The best use of AI is to replace CEOs, C-Suite, politicians and bureaucrats. Let them feel the heat for the first time in their life.

Interested folks can start by putting in shareholder resolutions with the proposal and the prompts that would replace CEO. SKILLs.md?

fassssst 2 hours ago

So we work for the AI? AI should work for us.

kelseyfrog 2 hours ago

Servant leadership

SpicyLemonZest an hour ago

Servant leadership is a management cliche that works well as a counterbalance to the dominance hierarchy that's implicit in a human org chart. I'm not going to listen to a Claude instance telling me to do something I'd prefer not to do.

kelseyfrog 15 minutes ago

I wonder if the instance would send you a termination letter for that level of insubordination.

matchbok3 2 hours ago

Feel the heat? As in, be punished? For what, exactly?

NegativeLatency 2 hours ago

Wage theft

gigatree 2 hours ago

They’re just doing what they’re told to do by the shareholders. They’re the largest cogs sure, but cogs nonetheless, and they’re replaced just as quickly when they fail to make choices that maximize profit above all else.

marcus_holmes 2 hours ago

For being egotistical psychopaths

altmanaltman an hour ago

No the best use is to replace hacker news commentors. Let them feel the heat for the fist time in their life.

See you can add anything there and the sentence will make sense.

I will never vote for an AI system to actually make laws lol wtf are you even saying

arjie an hour ago

I think it's pretty fun. Worker cooperatives no longer need different ranks of executive officers. They can all be peers with different functions. So if worker cooperatives are going to succeed in the US, they have pretty good conditions right now.

chanux 21 minutes ago

Good thought experiment but the flip side works just as well.

Let the C-suite do it all with AI alone and see where they get.

Grosvenor 40 minutes ago

This reminds me of William Gibson's "Burning Chrome", where the head of a syndicate is a Russian AI (Chrome) running things behind a smuggling front. Gibson basically predicted the AI CEO forty years early!

A warning: Don't burn Chrome.

yunnpp 3 hours ago

An auditable executive would certainly be a first.

__MatrixMan__ 38 minutes ago

If human-led companies started consistently losing to AI led companies... would it say more about the intelligence of AI, or about how thoroughly power corrupts humans?

skirge 18 minutes ago

there's unemployment due too lack of CEOs (companies). AI CEO solves this problem. Full employment can be achieved.

rdudek an hour ago

I've been slowly developing my hermes agent to do something similar but is very customized towards my needs. I should spin up another agent and give this one a shot and see what it's capable of. This is hilarious.

GrumpySciGuy 3 hours ago

A team of software developers were recently let go so a company could replace them with AI. So they got together and created an Open Source AI CEO to replace the CEO and other executives. Hopefully, turnabout is fair play and this might even get some folks to think twice about using AI to replace people.

VohuMana 3 hours ago

This is hilarious, I feel like we are going to see AI companies add something to the system prompt or terms of service that explicitly forbids having an LLM act as CEO. Honestly though I do hope this gives pause to the C suite when it comes to replacing people with AI

ThrowawayR2 3 hours ago

Corporate officers, including CEOs, have to be "natural persons" (legal jargon for flesh-and-blood humans) either directly by law or indirectly as a practical matter so the attempted turnabout falls flat on its face.

Sun Tzu said to "know your enemy" and those who don't know the basics of how businesses and finance work have no hope of defeating them.

forgetfreeman 2 hours ago

Neat. Hire an intern to prompt the "CEO" as needed. Problem solved.

cwillu 2 hours ago

If the paperwork says the intern is the CEO, then the intern is the CEO, regardless of how much the intern's agent's github says otherwise.

forgetfreeman an hour ago

Yep. You're starting to catch on. Same functionality, significant cost savings for the organization.

ThrowawayR2 an hour ago

This is one of those rejoinders that tries to be clever but really, really isn't. The "intern as fake CEO" is left holding the bag because it's their signature on contracts and other legal documents. The idea of puppet CEOs to fraudulently dodge accountability existed well before LLMs became a thing. Courts see right through that kind of scheme plus the "intern" is likely to turn coat against the mastermind to save their own skin at the first sign of trouble.

forgetfreeman an hour ago

If you think CEOs are the primary legal signatories for their company you might need to spend some time away from garage band startups. Companies maintain entire legal departments for a reason.

bee_rider an hour ago

I’d be more interested to see a collection of independent guild, unions, and co-ops that voluntarily coordinate through an AI intermediary.

Because the AI can’t really own things or be held responsible, the idea of a skeuomorphic AI seems quite silly. Keep the ownership in the humans, but plural, and have them in contact with the actual work.

janalsncm 2 hours ago

To the extent this is tongue in cheek it is funny, but I could imagine if I was building a startup I’d like something like this if it was good.

That said, if you look at what it’s actually doing (read the question carefully, then read what it actually said) I am not convinced this is better than what ChatGPT could do out of the box already.

https://youtu.be/O_g97xxVTMk

shrubby 32 minutes ago

This is brilliant! Immediately forwarded to the boss.

theodorewiles 2 hours ago

I think AI CEOs are dumb but AI 'enterprise decision-makers' could be very very interesting.

Imagine how quickly your meetings could get resolved if you had teams submit prompts / contexts, had a clear, documented set of overarching objectives, etc.?

nullorempty 2 hours ago

Let's also replace politicians and other officials.

AI - might finally "care for miners and not the minors on the island somewhere".

Therefore, AI will not be blackmailed into doing shit.

firefoxd an hour ago

We've replaced our CEO for the better part of 6 weeks now. He has been on a media tour promoting a product we no longer sell, but it keeps him busy while we continue to grow.

While Proxy AI [0] is not open source, it is free, it is built from pure garage energy, and we are having our summer sale right now. 20% off for HN users.

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alansaber 2 hours ago

We're all joking around here. But 5 decades down the line, with increasing cognitive offload to AI, is a slow erosion leading to this end state so crazy?

bwhiting2356 3 hours ago

Many CEOs are bad and their businesses will either fail or be bailed out. But the work CEOs do is probably some of the last to get automated - higher order strategy, relationship building, managing people.

newsomix9xl 2 hours ago

Awesome!!!

This is the best project ever.

I have been waiting for this for awhile. Now we can have real layoffs for an AI pivot starting with management :-)

nullorempty 3 hours ago

Honestly, this is hilarious!

Please replace CTOs while you are at it and most architects can also be replaced easily!

GrumpySciGuy an hour ago

It can be configured to replace any mangagment role. The goal is to do for management what co-pilot, cursor and Claude did for development.

Animats 3 hours ago

Is this automated CEO any good? Is there a listing from a demo session?

GrumpySciGuy 3 hours ago

Highly configurable. Looks like it is targeted at any level of management. The key features seems that it can generate its own vision of how to move something forward and that it can be set with degrees of freedom depending on the use case. Video demo here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_g97xxVTMk

shermantanktop 3 hours ago

The speech model for the voiceover should be named “Max Vocalfry.”

georgemcbay 3 hours ago

> Is this automated CEO any good?

Most importantly, what is its golf handicap?

jayroh 2 hours ago

Peak comment right here