Comment by candiddevmike
2 days 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).
Also replaces lawyers.
From what I hear, this will not happen. AI keeps absolutely making up laws and cases that don’t exist no matter what you feed it. Basically anything legal written or partially written by AI is a liability. IANAL but have been reading a tiny bit about it.
The need for lawyers will shrink and is shrinking. My company used to call lawyers for many small little things. Now it is easy to ask an LLM and have the second LLM verify it. For super critical things, we may still call lawyers. And in the court rooms, you will still see lawyers. But everywhere else the need for lawyers will keep going down.
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Worth to note that lawyer is not only read a text and say: "true or false" requires interpretation and understanding of how a society changes/evolves, depending on the country it's jurisprudence or more analytical (written laws).
I have a difficult in see why a portion of HN audience is so "narrowed view" about justice systems and politics.
Ehhh just calling a raw LLM is not going to replace anyone and be prone to hallucination, sure. But lawyers are increasingly using LLM systems, and there's law-specific products that are heavily grounded (ie. they can only respond from source material).
If your entire job, as a VP or director/manager, is getting progress reports, you’re probably a wildly shitty manager and ought to be replaced anyways.
Seems more like the kind of thing a “smartest guy in the building” dev believes to be true, than actual reality at a real company.
Having VPs “clear blockers” is absolutely asinine.