Comment by jreynar

Completely agree. The worst sort of manager is the one who wants to stay "high level" and proposes things that either aren't possible or are vastly harder than their idea to "just do X" suggests. And the root cause is them not knowing the details.

What gets me excited about AI is that you can hand off some of the detailed work, specifically the repetitive sort. As a sales person, you ought to know how to create a quote for a customer. But creating the 50th one for the same product for the same number of seats becomes drudgery. As a software engineer, you should know how to fix (or at least you should have back in the day) a buffer overrun, but it gets tedious to fix hundreds of them (and I know since I was at Microsoft when we paused Office development to do just that, for months). I bet there's an example for every role.

And the benefit of having an AI handle those details -- not the first time, but once you're a master and the AI has become trusted -- is that you can focus on things that require a human being's attention. More creative, more collaborative tasks. Conveniently those tend to be more rewarding than fixing another teensy bug or writing another formulaic email.