Generative AI has advanced sigificantly can it replace management jobs like SVP amd VPs ?
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Great idea. Laying off a senior 'leader' yields the same cost reduction as laying off 20+ worker bees.
@2p3 total ignorance
AI is coming for all jobs. In fact it is coming for your job before officer. Get your exit strategy fine tuned.
AI would do a better job then most of Techs current leaders and probably treat the humans with more respect too.
DGTC is full of Tech leaders pretending they know what they are doing while the vendors and young new hires struggle keeping legacy technology running that still operate the business. Loved how the platform modernization goals that was priority #1 couple years ago are still nowhere close to being done but they just move on without an update about its progress. AI is just another layer to add to the mess. At least it could actually understand how the systems work and possible offer actual progress.
I agree…. We keep hiring lazy SVPs and VPs knowing AI is who does the real for those leaders. I saw an announcement of some new leaders and they seem like clowns.
Yes, AI can replace any decision making process given all the appropriate inputs and decision tree options. That’s where AI is now. No problem.
The unfortunate truth at Walmart is, leadership has traditionally made horrible decisions (in the tech arena) and then forced those decisions down to the worker-bee level to try to implement those horrible decisions. Just think back to things like Harvest, Jet.com, mainframe elimination, bringing in Amazon ideology, and we could go on and on.
The root cause of tech failure at Walmart stems from the reliance on Indian contractors, H1B, the sell out of US tech workers and the saturation of Indian managers, sr managers, directors and such.
The failing tech situation started with KAT, and has continued to auger in. At this point, it’s almost better just to outsource all tech/IT to someone with no previous ties to Walmart. I personally don’t know any tech managers who think things are going well. There’s no pride in worksmanship and everyone is just waiting for the next completely avoidable fire drill.
Executive leadership needs to accept the fact things are not good and take action before it’s absolutely too far gone.
What a shame.
AI can't give commitments to leaders.