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Ok so clearly a satire. However I kinda want this. They make some really good points about how an AI would be better than many CEOs. Honestly some of the companies I've worked for would be better with Gemini at in charge. Yes humanity is doomed, but at least I would understand the motivations and we'd have less CEO ADHD moments. (CEO ADHD -> "Some other CEO told me about X, why aren't we doing X")
I feel like if I mention technology X in my system context for Gemini, there is a 100% chance that when I ask for hiking recommendations Gemini will say "As a user of technology X, you would appreciate the beauty and elegance of the Cuyamaca National Forest"
I hear you.

I worked as a consultant for a company where the CEO one day, they just started using AI chat for everything. Every question you asked, they just forwarded it. Same thing for company strategy, major decisions, presentation content, and so on.

Initially, I was really annoyed. After I took a deep breath, and read through the wall of text they sent (to figure out how to respond), I eventually realized it was slightly better than their previous work. Not like, night-and-day better, but slightly better.

Since then, I've been playing with the idea of 'hiring' an AI to manage my freelance and personal work. I would not be required to do what it says, but I could take it under consideration and see if I work better that way. Sort of like the ultimate expression of "servant leadership".

I'd be concerned about all the CEO's reports prompt injecting the boss though.

Give me a raise so I can buy her medicine, or my grandma dies...

It's cute, and fun, but I disagree. It could make a mistake, but it could go a long time with giving us confidence and a reasonable return of intelligent results. I think that can lull us into dependency. Do we really want to give up decision-making to AI? I don't think so.

With that said, if it's used purely as a tool by a CEO, and overtime has been developed with the optimal parameters for the company with its culture and everything (thank Apple) then the AI can help make decision decisions for the company.

Can you design an AI agent that I own, to replace me? This is what the market really wants and is probably one of the ONLY things that doesn't exist.

Just let me subscribe to an agent to do my work while I keep getting a paycheck.

Who's giving you that paycheck? Why don't they just hire that AI agent themselves and cut out the middle man?
I've replaced myself for the better part of a year now. You can too: https://getproxyai.com/
> Just let me subscribe to an agent to do my work while I keep getting a paycheck.

I've already done this. It's just a Teams bot that responds to messages with:

"Yeah that looks okay, but it should probably be a database rather than an Excel spreadsheet. Have you run it past the dev team? If you need anything else just raise a ticket and get Helpdesk to tag me in it"

"I'm pretty sure you'll be fine with that, but check with {{ senior_manager }} first, and if you need further support just raise a ticket and Helpdesk will pass it over"

"Yes, quite so, and indeed if you refer to my previous email from about six months ago you'll see I mentioned that at the time"

"Okay, you should be good to go. Just remember, we have Change Management Process for a reason so the next time try to raise a CR so one of us can review it, before anyone touches anything"

and then

"If you've any further questions please stick them in an email and I'll look at it as a priority.

Mòran taing,

EB."

(notice that I don't say how high a priority?)

No AI needed. Just good old-fashioned scripting, and organic stupidity.

What would you actually do if you got that? I like watching movies and playing games, but that lifestyle quickly leads to depression. I like travelling too, but imagine if everyone could do it all the time. There's only so many good places.
Isn't this kind of the same as an AI copilot, just with higher autonomy?

I think the limiting factor is that the AI still isn't good enough to be fully autonomous, so it needs your input. That's why it's still in copilot form

Really this is the only 10x part of GenAI that I see: increasing the number of reports exponentially by removing managers/directors, and using GenAI (search/summarization, e.g. "how is X progressing" etc) to understand what's going on underneath you. Get rid of the political game of telephone and get leaders closer to the ground floor (and the real problems/blockers).
This looks like the perfect counterpart to Boss as a Service:

https://bossasaservice.com/

I love that they’re all called David except for Simon
Our CEO did not write a customary Thanksgiving email. There was nothing from other C-level leadership. I’ve been around long enough to see this erosion in company culture custom. What is happening? Perhaps an AI CEO would have these subtleties.
Though I think the CEO role is realistically one of the hardest to automate, I’d say middle management is a very juicy target.

To the extent a manager is just organizing and coordinating rather than setting strategic direction, I think that role is well within current capabilities. It’s much easier to automate this than the work itself, assuming you have a high bar for quality.

The UI looks good! Is there a reason this is being shared here? Feels like a collection of tired, trite oneliners that I’d expect to see on Twitter rather than here.
Oh no, not the protected class!!

AI can and should replace CEOs, Lawyers, and even non surgeon doctors. The fact that AI is always brought up when it comes to software development layoffs (ironically they are the ones who built it) but yet it isn’t impacting the ones that it easily could, raise so many questions, and clearly shows that AI is being weaponized to lower wages of some workers while others are protected by regulations and lobbyists.

Joke aside, I do think think someone should work on a legitimate agent for financial and business decision, management, and so on.

Especially "decision making". I find it's one of the things that are tricky, making the AI agent optimize for actually good decisions and not just give you info or options, but create real opinion and take real decisions.

How hard would it be to run a simulator with multiple LLMs. Say, one as the boss and a few as employees. Just let them talk, coordinate, and "work"? Could be the fastest way to test what actually happens when you try to automate management.
The site is obviously satire, but the interesting part is the growth tactic behind it. oilwell.app is using a meme page as a distribution engine instead of a standard marketing site.

In a crowded AI tooling market, this kind of contrast joke on the front paired with a real product behind it, cuts through noise in a way a normal landing page wouldn’t. People mock the gimmick, but the gimmick is doing exactly what it’s designed to do, get everyone talking.

Funny. Infact, the blockchain smart contract (DAPPs) tried this before, by fully automating (they call it democratizing) the decisions. Not sure how it went.
Ah fun enough I wrote a post just about that https://open.substack.com/pub/defragzone/p/ceo-is-obsolete?r...
My boss is a pretty awesome technologist, too, but has a lot of time sunk into business stuff.

I sent this along as a joke but I doubt any of us are enthused about working for an AI.

It would be cool to automate more of that business stuff but I suspect it's too "soft" to actually automate.

> We don't have meetings, we have collaborative ideation experiences

yep, checks out.

The free version of Gemini says it could not replace the CEO of JP Morgan Chase but that it would make an excellent Chief Risk Officer or Chief Strategist. That would still save a ton of money!
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20059894

Called it, six years ago :-)

I can see boards of directors drooling at the potential savings.

You can make this yourself quite easily.

Choose a UI that lets you modify the system prompt, like open WebUI.

Ask Claude to generate a system card for a CEO.

Copy and paste the output into a system prompt.

There you have it, your own AI CEO.

It's easier to replace the ceo and management than the leaf nodes of production. The opportunity for CEO as a service is enormous
lol fun satire and totally true true for the bigger companies the incentive for the board is to replace the excess too.
Perhaps not a CEO but I figure an AI COO could be quite valuable for founder-types like me.
Only Male AI-CEO avatars?

Gender bias checked!

Shut up and take my money.
My Last Job could definitely benefit from this…. /s (not)
in the same vein as http://developerexcuses.com/ (and presumably many others)
This is a little too on the nose.
Aw, it's just a joke. I thought someone was ready to really try it.

Eventually, there will be AI CEOs, once they start outperforming humans. Capitalism requires it.

Is that you, Delamain?
I like the fun part of it. But this is clearly vibe coded slop. The awful pink colour scheme, clickable buttons which don’t do anything bang in middle of the page, the share button which doesn’t really share etc.

And some of the messages keep repeating like carbon footprint etc. Just seems low effort and not in a fun way.

No woman CEO ?
Great name.
nice !
man, why does slop like this get to the front page yet my project I've been slaving away on dies in "New"
Can we also replace shareholders with Ai