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  "description": "\"The problem tends to show up when a CEO is handed an agentic tool like Claude Code, and has it create something, which will work just fine, and thinks “oh, wait, why do we need so many people, when I can just sit here and make things work?”\n\nThis is a bad CEO.\"",
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  "publishedAt": "2026-06-10T22:19:28.000Z",
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    "CEOs Who Think AI Replaces Their Employees Are Just Bad CEOs, by Mike Masnick in TechDirt"
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  "textContent": "Link: CEOs Who Think AI Replaces Their Employees Are Just Bad CEOs, by Mike Masnick in TechDirt\n\nI second this sentiment:\n\n> “It seems pretty clear to me that companies that think they’ll be able to layoff huge swaths of workers because of LLM tools are going to find out they’re mistaken pretty quickly. The power of LLMs is that when used well and used willingly it can help employees to get more done, but that doesn’t mean you need fewer humans. You need more humans who know how to work productively.”\n\nI’ve seen some pretty dumb stuff out in the wild: leaders who have expected their engineers to dramatically increase their output to inhuman levels, company-wide token leaderboards, product managers who believe they can replace real user research with synthetic personas, and, of course, high-level leaders who think they can replace their human workers with AI agents. (None of this, I should say, has been at my job, where our work is primarily done by humans and AI, when it is used at all, is an assistive tool.)\n\nI think Mike Masnick’s prescription is accurate: many CEOs are so distant from the actual productive work of a company that they miss the complicated nuance of what goes into it. So if they can produce something with Claude Code that feels analogous to it, a bad CEO might start wondering why they’re hiring all these people.\n\nA good CEO will understand that they’re missing a ton of expertise that goes into building something well, doing work with skill, or even just exercising humane human judgment. The others will find out the hard way that they’re wrong to underestimate their employees.",
  "title": "The honest truth about leaders who want to replace their workers with AI",
  "updatedAt": "2026-06-10T22:19:28.978Z"
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