AI middle-manager joke says the new job is just forwarding tickets to Codex
BenBajarin · x · 2026-07-25
A joke thread about AI replacing middle managers: the “job” is to take product requirements, pass them to the model, and then tell Codex the ticket number so it can read the ticket itself. The punchline is that the remaining human work is becoming almost entirely routing and delegation.
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