What's unique to AI is that CEOs now have a robot that supports that disconnect. Our CEO recently announced that he has now started doing frontend programming, by which he meant that he had told ChatGPT to output some HTML. No doubt it also told him how smart and clever his ideas were and what a great engineer he was.
This kind of thing only increases the disconnect between what CEOs think employees do and what they actually do.
maybe the html part is unique to ai, i suppose.
but a c-suite picking up some tool, making a toy example, then declaring “well doing X is super easy, roll it out” (or “change the kpi”, etc.) is something i have seen dozens of times.
Some people have surrounded themselves by yes-men instead of LLMs, and it seems to me that it comes to the same thing.