If AI can replace engineers who build the products and chips, what defense is to have Program Managers, Directors, Middle Management, FLM, Product Management and all the paperwork personnel? Also VPs and Directors. What do anyone of them do that AI is not sophisticated enough to do today?
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Use AI to replace the top 3 layers of management, then Intel will have a chance to save cost and rebound. With the current managements, Intel is doomed 100%. It is a matter of time for a rotten egg.
It probably will happen because competition will drive it. But it shouldn’t be allowed to. Take software development. AI technically doesn’t need source code. It could go from design board straight to machine code. But it would be a huge mistake to have AI building complex systems that are harder or even impossible for humans to understand. You already have stories about these, not even AGI, systems refusing instructions, rewriting rules, and being deceptive. Could you imagine when AGI is here? There are major trust and security issues before we even talk about the existential ones. But it seems unavoidable. If company A can beat all others by having AI develop more performant, but human incomprehensible code, then it will. And all others will follow.
Even if AI replaces all the engineers at Intel, with this d-mba$$ leadership it is still doomed to fail due to bad guidance!😀😀😀😀😀 Replace the entire Intel leadership team with AI and Intel may have a chance to get rescued.
@OP good post. The only thing I can think of is external customer facing g roles which needs a human touch still. Anything else can or will be in near future not be needed. Certainly not the stupid high paying jobs like Sr.PE, Fellows, Directors, and the countless layers of VPs
We need leaders, not managers. As Steve Jobs points out, the best managers are the best engineers who don’t want to be managers. Managers are for old industrial factories, low-tech laborers. Successful high tech companies have best engineers leading engineers.
I think AI will augment / replace almost all roles in a company - bottom line is each company will need less people. I read the next object of openAI is to give it the ability to invent.
@a5 Forget AI CEOs. CEO are managers.
@OP is absolutely right on. I would rather work for AI than any of my managers at Intel.
Is LBT or ET thinking this or not ? We have VPs who knew nothing about AI till last year and now they are experts
@a5 The engineering managers won't be needed, since the work is done by the subordinates. AI can centralize the report collection and assessment. There is no need for a human in the loop. AI also doesn't care if you are bootlicker - only results matter.
Since AI does not need managers, all these will be gone: VPs, Directors, Program Managers, Directors, Middle Management, FLM, Product Management and all the paperwork personnel. Since these are not technical position, but only human management, and not contributing to any product or manufacturing , these positions should be the target of layoff in the first place. Then Intel will have good cost saving. Intel's has such heavy layers of managements and they think they are privileged. These are the fats to get rid of.