While I enjoy watching CEOs pratfall, I do think there’s some things that are still worrisome.

The power of LLMs is that when used well and used willingly it can help employees to get more done, but that doesn’t mean you need fewer humans. You need more humans who know how to work productively.

The power of LLMs is that when used well and used willingly it can help employees to get more done, but that doesn’t mean you need fewer humans. You need more humans who know how to work productively.

You can need more humans who know how to work productively, while still ending up with less humans overall. If you have a set amount of work, if you make people more productive, you will need less people overall, generally speaking. There can be exceptions, like if something (like review) is a hard bottleneck, but not everything will be.

The issue CEOs are running into is overcorrecting and thinking that means you don’t need any people. But if it took you 100 employees with 25 of them reviewing to get something done before, it might only take you say, 75 now with 35 of them reviewing to get it up to snuff. But you’re still down 25 jobs, net. There are going to be a lot of jobs that won’t need 100 reviewers- that’s the point of increased productivity. (numbers are just for example).