Chris Blackburn

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Eye On A.I. · Real AI Transformation Costs HALF of Everyone's Salary for 2 Years | Chris Blackburn, Liatrio · 30 Jul 2026 podcast

And I think that part's going to be difficult, but I think that's going to be where the biggest opportunity space is at with AI is to reduce the human in the loop on everything there.

So almost that you're always in approval, you're always being coordinated, you're always being organized and all of that.

I think that's where a huge opportunity is going to be.

And I think ultimately that's going to mean more people are going to move into jobs that have been considered individual contributors, more builders, more people that are actually value producers versus the overhead.

And that means, in my mind, likely a shrinking in the organizational hierarchy, less middle management.

And this gets back into the passion part of it and all that as well, where this is a real spaghetti system for sure, is do people that made their way into management want to go back into being an individual contributor, knowing that's where the only place where true value is created?

I think there's going to be a hierarchy for a bunch of people that sit on top of individual contributors and become...

the player coaches and the motivators and all of that type of stuff to the team where you're actually leveraging your skills to the broader team.

But on average, I think it's going to be a significant reduction in that hierarchy and the coordination in the middle layer there for sure.

And I think that's going to be a very interesting thing to go through.

Yeah.

So you're absolutely right.

I think in any technology, we saw this in the DevOps space is that DevOps was a purity thing to start with.

And then all of a sudden the term got overused and everybody was doing DevOps and DevOps kind of meant nothing.

And I think that that's just an unfortunate reality of our industry.

The same thing happened with Agile early in the days and all of that as well.

Right.

It's like, are you doing the actual behaviors and the systems that kind of align to that guide and all of that?

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