AI will gut middle management: agents can do PPL work better at scale
signulll · x · 2026-10-26
signulll argues AI will disrupt people & performance management: Alex Wang at Meta has 200+ direct reports, former Anthropic CTOs are now ICs, and many startups reject the managerial track entirely. Traditional PPL manager duties—assigning work, coordinating, evaluating, developing talent, resolving conflict—can be done better by agents at scale. He predicts a new horizontal coaching role for personalized talent development, separate from administrative management.
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