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Ask HN: In the future will there still be big organizations?

by morph123 on 3/17/23, 5:51 PM with 0 comments

Something I have been seeing around these parts is this scenario were everyone with any degree of craftsmanship gets fired by clueless managers and they will drunkely prompt Jarvis to do the same job as these now fired employees.

I am just wondering how these organizations will live, what are they making? If what they are doing requires no knowledge and can be reproduced instantly then surely there is no business? Exception is obviously cooperations that have a lot of compute resource and acts as AI platforms (M$, Google, Amazon).

In my mind the future seems to be tiny super narrow highly competent teams that will operate on the very sharp end of some area of research that will have their own fine tuned AI. They will then guard that data as if it were the gold in fort knox.

I don't see any managers, PMs, CEOs, or anyone really making it out of this as the cost of labor and knowledge goes towards zero unless you are making something that has some physical manifestation, but then you are going to be absolutely swamped by competition bringing your prices down anyway.

Do you guys disagree with this. What do you think will happen?