Post #1362214
2026-04-10 14:34 UTC
It seems vaguely AI flavored to me inasmuch as it's using contrasts too much (it's not x it's y) and it's way too verbose. Also it's obviously wrong at least in my experience, middle managers aren't the sparrows, individual contributors (especially juniors) are.
Maybe that's just a symptom of a person reading too much AI text and thinking a good tweet would make a great substack.
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@YourNetworkIsHaunted@awful.systems 2026-04-11 07:06
Yeah, they lost me at the middle managers bit too. In my experience your manager is probably the one pushing the metrics to show their team's contributions to the knowledge base that is feeding into the AI model that's replacing them. They're already creatures of the bureaucracy and are more likely to try and fight each other over the few remaining roles that will exist after the majority of their teams are replaced with the confabulatron, rather than be concerned about their own replacements. After all, their job stops existing *because* their team got downsized, but their time in that job may be dependent on their enthusiastic participation in the process that leads there.