David Cooper

And when I was in the tech market, you know, it was so good for employees back in like 2019, 2018, you could afford to hire sort of like adult children who needed a lot of emotional, I don't know, labor.

Not that the people who reported to me were that way.

No comment.

I guess nowadays with the market being a little rough, they can afford to get rid of people that really need a therapist manager.

OK, so let's talk about these titles, org lead, player coach, AI builder.

What do these even mean?

If this is my title at a company these days, what am I doing?

Are these companies saying a lot of hierarchy slows innovation?

Is that the claim they're making?

Absolutely.

But don't people also need clarity about who's responsible for what?

And don't you need hierarchy for that?

So if middle management goes away in these corporations, what happens to the career ladder?

Are you just the same old worker as your peer with the same old title?

You just make three times what they make?

Is that the only incentive here, more pay?

Isn't this gradual progression of junior employee, senior employee, manager, director, what's going to happen to that?

Assuming in 15 years, the robots don't band together and kill us all.

Do you think the way org charts look today will completely shift at most companies, or is this just a fad?

In 15 years, companies will look very similar to the way they did just before ChatGPT launched its demo.