Charity Majors: AI cannot replace middle management's sense-making role
mipsytipsy · x · 2026-08-19
Honeycomb CTO Charity Majors emphasizes that managers who stayed hands-on during the AI wave are in high demand. She argues that the core of management—sense-making and context giving—cannot be delegated to AI via prompts. Teams that tried outsourcing context to AI found it evaporated within weeks, leaving no record of decision rationale.
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