So, how does that relate to the general productivity of the firm? If I look at this from a perspective of someone like Stafford Beer or other types of operational research then I could say that the smoothness of the delegation between top level and bottom level defines how good the operations are.
For example, you can have lots of cracked engineers but that doesn’t matter if management doesn’t know what to do?
One can think of a manager as an inexperienced software engineer for example. Sorry if I didn’t make that clear before.
I know a bunch of people with more experience in other areas who now have a lot easier time understanding code and that literacy might then lead to increases in precision at management level.
Big Tech headcounts grow, as they hire more people both to flatter the egos of managers—they are drowning in cash anyway—and in particular many product managers to oversee the AI codegen agents that are unleashing a massive series of new products now that they’re mostly no longer constrained by development taking lots of time. Internal company office politics becomes even more of a rate-limiter: if teams are functional, the AI codegen boost means more products shipped, whereas if teams are not, the gains are eaten up by employees working less or by factional fights within companies.
Well, the top labs pretty much only higher really cracked coders, and it seems like the top labs are primarily responsible for pushing the frontier.
I do not know if Thane had a more rigorous argument, but mine seems pretty likely to work.
So, how does that relate to the general productivity of the firm? If I look at this from a perspective of someone like Stafford Beer or other types of operational research then I could say that the smoothness of the delegation between top level and bottom level defines how good the operations are.
For example, you can have lots of cracked engineers but that doesn’t matter if management doesn’t know what to do?
What does this have to do with inexperienced software engineers?
I don’t think I understand what you’re getting at anymore.
One can think of a manager as an inexperienced software engineer for example. Sorry if I didn’t make that clear before.
I know a bunch of people with more experience in other areas who now have a lot easier time understanding code and that literacy might then lead to increases in precision at management level.
You reminded me of this part of Rudolf’s story: