The Coming Collapse of White Collar Illusions

AI Isn’t Your Copilot—It’s Your Manager. And it definitely doesn’t care about your Jira tickets. Just published a piece that’s been brewing for a while: "AI Is Just Another Middle Manager: The Coming Collapse of White Collar Illusions" It’s not about replacing everyone. It’s about replacing the people who manage the people doing the work. If LLMs can summarize your standups, draft your reports, and track your backlog better than your team lead... you might want to update your resume—or rewire your role. Full post here: https://medium.com/@street.noah/ai-is-just-another-middle-manager-the-coming-collapse-of-white-collar-illusions-0752724b3179 Bonus goodies for devs & indie builders: Prompt packs, workflows, and unfiltered dev musings at noahjstreet.com Would love your thoughts—especially if you’ve replaced middle management with a few scripts and an LLM. AI #DevLife #FutureOfWork #PromptEngineering #Automation

Apr 16, 2025 - 18:20

AI Isn’t Your Copilot—It’s Your Manager.
And it definitely doesn’t care about your Jira tickets.

Just published a piece that’s been brewing for a while:
"AI Is Just Another Middle Manager: The Coming Collapse of White Collar Illusions"

It’s not about replacing everyone.
It’s about replacing the people who manage the people doing the work.

If LLMs can summarize your standups, draft your reports, and track your backlog better than your team lead...
you might want to update your resume—or rewire your role.

Full post here: https://medium.com/@street.noah/ai-is-just-another-middle-manager-the-coming-collapse-of-white-collar-illusions-0752724b3179

Bonus goodies for devs & indie builders:
Prompt packs, workflows, and unfiltered dev musings at noahjstreet.com

Would love your thoughts—especially if you’ve replaced middle management with a few scripts and an LLM.

AI #DevLife #FutureOfWork #PromptEngineering #Automation