Technology

this is actually what it should be used for. If companies pivoted their AI use to exactly that I almost guarantee you peoples opinions, i.e. middle manager wannabe techbros on linkedin, would change on it. But this is what AI should be used for. mundane project management style tasks. let your devs do dev work, let your upper management continue to do nothing and reap the rewards, and get rid of the yes men/women in the middle. THAT's when you'll see the shift.

We've kinda somewhat seriously talked about this at my office ... A lot of very boring report writing goes away if you feed an LLM a log of daily activities (chats, commits, issue tickets, etc) across the team.

Given that AI is particularly useful at increasing alignment (when applied smartly), and that this is often a role delegated to middle managers, it is quite likely that flatter orgs will happen.

The need for top-tier technical, product, and business judgement and problem engagement will increase, while the need for muddle-through managers and similar roles will decrease.

We'll see more initiatives organized end-to-end by small groups of smart people, with virtual teams/coalitions forming to bypass "archaic" processes and deliver meaningful results. We'll see a lot of sloppy failures along the way too, but the overall trend seems clear.