Management incompetence in tech is a serious problem that predates the AI fiasco by leaps and bounds.

I’m talking about the new management focus at HN since AI lowered the bar for ICs to become managers, not about “management incompetence in tech”.

I am curious about this take. What I have seen personally & my understanding of the broader industry pressure is for managers to go back to IC.

The broader industry pressure, at least as it shows up in HN posts about AI usage at work, is apparently to pressure ICs to manage AI workers without being granted access to the management pay scales. As we’re seeing on HN, a lot of our ICs are clearly itching to be managers when the workforce has no ability to complain about or contest their demands. It must be an infuriating time to be a middle manager, both jealous of the ICs who get to manage compliant workers rather than human ones, and terrified for their own jobs, and having to see HN enraged at all the managerial content being posted with ‘AI’ after years of HN rejecting those exact same topics when it’s about managing humans rather than AI.

(Outside of the context of HN I don’t have anything to say here about the industry as a whole. Someday in another more appropriate post about the tech industry I will, though!)

What could be more American than a foreign born mafia engaging in human trafficking?

I find this optimistic, suggesting that the rot can be stopped with some consequence? The rotten "populace" in the country seem to love their corrupt politicians, and it's because they're corrupt too. Meritocracy began it's slow death with the banking bailouts.

We never talk about social welfare programs? Odd, I hear chatter all the time. How about we never talk about rewarding management-by-breaking-things?

> How about we never talk about rewarding management-by-breaking-things?

Have you seen who we elect to run our countries?