Will AI take programming jobs or turn programmers into AI managers?

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Prior to the last 10 years or so when I've been mostly a full-time advisor, pundit, and columnist, I was a manager. I was a product marketing executive earlier in my career, and a publisher later in my career. I had people directly reporting to me for years.

I managed editors, salespeople, programmers, manufacturing teams, and other executives.

The Future of AI, Jobs, and Automation

We've entered a period of dramatic innovation in AI and automation and it's going to have a significant impact on the future of jobs, productivity, and the ways we operate in teams. Research predicts that worker productivity could increase by as much as 4x by 2030, powered by AI. We unpack the opportunities and the ways to benefit from this transformation.

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You want to know one of the best things about my encore career? No direct reports. I don't have to manage anyone.

People who haven't been managers think bosses get to spend their time dumping work on underlings and just bossing people around. Managers know that the reality is they spend much of their time simply trying to get the people who work for them to execute their job duties as instructed.

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