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Posted by GrumpySciGuy 6 hours ago

CEO fired developers to make room for AI. Developers create open source AI CEO(github.com)
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petesergeant 1 hour ago|
As much as I love Claude/Fable, I have recently found Sol to be dramatically better at this kind of task
newsomix9xl 4 hours ago||
Awesome!!!

This is the best project ever.

I have been waiting for this for awhile. Now we can have real layoffs for an AI pivot starting with management :-)

s1artibartfast 1 hour ago||
Not every company needs a CEO, and that is ok. Companies do however need a decision making process and clear authorizations.

Creating an AI executive suite can bring some skills to the table, but it doesn't solve the authority question. I'm curious how this would work in practice...

What happens if the AI decides it wants to commit funds - does it have authority? What if it wants to change direction? What if it wants to fire a developer?

Animats 5 hours ago||
Is this automated CEO any good? Is there a listing from a demo session?
GrumpySciGuy 5 hours ago||
Highly configurable. Looks like it is targeted at any level of management. The key features seems that it can generate its own vision of how to move something forward and that it can be set with degrees of freedom depending on the use case. Video demo here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_g97xxVTMk
shermantanktop 5 hours ago||
The speech model for the voiceover should be named “Max Vocalfry.”
georgemcbay 5 hours ago||
> Is this automated CEO any good?

Most importantly, what is its golf handicap?

jayroh 4 hours ago||
Peak comment right here
shrubby 3 hours ago||
This is brilliant! Immediately forwarded to the boss.
skirge 3 hours ago||
there's unemployment due too lack of CEOs (companies). AI CEO solves this problem. Full employment can be achieved.
HomeDeLaPot 4 hours ago||
When will we see the world's first fully autonomous company?
hypfer 1 hour ago||
I'm really not sure why people are cheering for this.

We've been rightfully pissed at companies doing unethical things and getting away with it, as there is simply nothing you can hurt them with.

Why is HN fantasizing about making the companies even less hurtable? Are people here insane? Otoh, a lot of those accounts are just a few months old, so.. welp. Nice psyop we got here.

__MatrixMan__ 4 hours ago|||
If you want to see that idea extrapolated to an impressive extent, check out Accelerando by Charles Stross. If Stross was right we're in for a bumpy ride.
maerF0x0 2 hours ago||
https://andonlabs.com/blog/andon-market-launch
GrumpySciGuy 6 hours ago||
A team of software developers were recently let go so a company could replace them with AI. So they got together and created an Open Source AI CEO to replace the CEO and other executives. Hopefully, turnabout is fair play and this might even get some folks to think twice about using AI to replace people.
ThrowawayR2 5 hours ago||
Corporate officers, including CEOs, have to be "natural persons" (legal jargon for flesh-and-blood humans) either directly by law or indirectly as a practical matter so the attempted turnabout falls flat on its face.

Sun Tzu said to "know your enemy" and those who don't know the basics of how businesses and finance work have no hope of defeating them.

bee_rider 4 hours ago|||
I’d be more interested to see a collection of independent guild, unions, and co-ops that voluntarily coordinate through an AI intermediary.

Because the AI can’t really own things or be held responsible, the idea of a skeuomorphic AI seems quite silly. Keep the ownership in the humans, but plural, and have them in contact with the actual work.

forgetfreeman 4 hours ago|||
Neat. Hire an intern to prompt the "CEO" as needed. Problem solved.
ThrowawayR2 4 hours ago|||
This is one of those rejoinders that tries to be clever but really, really isn't. The "intern as fake CEO" is left holding the bag because it's their signature on contracts and other legal documents. The idea of puppet CEOs to fraudulently dodge accountability existed well before LLMs became a thing. Courts see right through that kind of scheme plus the "intern" is likely to turn coat against the mastermind to save their own skin at the first sign of trouble.
forgetfreeman 3 hours ago||
If you think CEOs are the primary legal signatories for their company you might need to spend some time away from garage band startups. Companies maintain entire legal departments for a reason.
cwillu 4 hours ago||||
If the paperwork says the intern is the CEO, then the intern is the CEO, regardless of how much the intern's agent's github says otherwise.
forgetfreeman 3 hours ago||
Yep. You're starting to catch on. Same functionality, significant cost savings for the organization.
VohuMana 5 hours ago||
This is hilarious, I feel like we are going to see AI companies add something to the system prompt or terms of service that explicitly forbids having an LLM act as CEO. Honestly though I do hope this gives pause to the C suite when it comes to replacing people with AI
respectattentio 4 hours ago|
After firing all, when CEO can fire themselves to be just founders?

This will be epic.

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