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Replace your boss before they replace you

https://replaceyourboss.ai/
133•_tk_•1h ago

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pygy_•37m ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20059894

Called it, six years ago :-)

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

belter•27m ago
Tesla can immediately make a saving of $1 Trillion
auggierose•19m ago
Love this one.
tylerflick•19m ago
Musk isn’t getting a trillion. Tesla sales would have to skyrocket.
koliber•9m ago
Imagine that they do skyrocket but the RoboCEO is in charge trillion gets distributed to shareholders.
dijksterhuis•36m ago
> We don't have meetings, we have collaborative ideation experiences

yep, checks out.

yojat661•34m ago
Can we also replace shareholders with Ai
canyp•17m ago
I don't get why people get a boner with CEOs. They are mostly irrelevant, the real power lies further above.
zkmon•33m ago
Funny. Infact, the blockchain smart contract (DAPPs) tried this before, by fully automating (they call it democratizing) the decisions. Not sure how it went.
keiferski•30m ago
This looks like the perfect counterpart to Boss as a Service:

https://bossasaservice.com/

chasing0entropy•29m ago
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.

crackalamoo•26m ago
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

-_-•20m ago
That's the premise behind Workshop Labs! https://workshoplabs.ai
IshKebab•9m ago
Why would the market want that? Don't be stupid.
georgehotz•5m ago
Who's giving you that paycheck? Why don't they just hire that AI agent themselves and cut out the middle man?
mkagenius•27m ago
Okay, this is a joke (created with ~~ai slop~~ vibe code) but I thought the idea is a bit interesting, `predict what your boss would ask you to do before they do` with good accuracy could be a valuable help in our day to day life.
candiddevmike•27m ago
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).
jvanderbot•26m ago
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.

didibus•25m ago
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.

Animats•25m ago
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.

satisfice•6m ago
Capitalism requires that capital is owned and controlled by specific people. So, no, there cannot be an AI CEO. In other words, if you say you have an AI CEO, then that entity will be under the control of someone else, whom you might as well call the real CEO.

Just like how Twitter had a “CEO” who was some pliable female who did the bidding of the real CEO: Elon Musk.

vanschelven•21m ago
in the same vein as http://developerexcuses.com/ (and presumably many others)
j45•21m ago
Great name.
tt24•20m ago
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.
coffeecoders•19m ago
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.
fragmede•17m ago
Not exceedingly so: https://news.ysimulator.run/faq
IshKebab•7m ago
I dunno the comments here perfectly capture HN-ackshewelly!

https://news.ysimulator.run/item/4317

ai-christianson•10m ago
This is quite literally what we've built @ Gobii, but it's prod ready and scalable.

The idea is you spin up a team of agents, they're always on, they can talk to one another, and you and your team can interact with them via email, sms, slack, discord, etc.

Disclaimer: founder

simultsop•18m ago
Shut up and take my money.
jondwillis•18m ago
I love that they’re all called David except for Simon
aussieguy1234•14m ago
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.

danenania•9m ago
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.

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