Of course Solopreneurs were a thing long before AI. It just takes special people. I think the assumption of this article is that there may be a larger array of people capable of running their own business with the aid of AI. I'm similarly leery of this for the same reasons covered in the post. Solopreneurs were generally technical people who had been forced to learn the business side after playing a senior role, generally a CTO or CEO, of a previous startup. They are "full stack" founders, who have deep understanding of the entire business stack, both on the business and technical side. These special people will likely be supercharged by AI, which they can intelligently direct to offload much of the grunt work, both on the technical side, and on the business side, especially for marketing.
I agree, but I think we are talking about slightly different things. I am not skeptical of solopreneurs at all (I have been one myself). The post is more about the current idea that large companies can keep replacing entire teams with AI until eventually there is barely anyone left.
It makes a lot more sense to replace CEOs with AI. They can hold a lot of context at once, can access company data instantly, and probably would cost an order of magnitude less.
Regarding your last point, I don’t think leadership remuneration is something most corporations are concerned with, otherwise there would be some pressure for it to go down, which isn’t the case. The AI won’t go on podcast to sell the company vision, or raise money from VCs
What practice? I'd like to see non-trivial uses of this outside scenarios other than this [0] which even now seems to show slow but steady improvements over time.
As for the Machiavellian scheming aspect, this seems to me to be very much like the operations of some real-world human CEOs.
Yes. Processing information is one thing. Creating momentum among investors, employees, partners, and customers who often want different things is another.
Of course Solopreneurs were a thing long before AI. It just takes special people. I think the assumption of this article is that there may be a larger array of people capable of running their own business with the aid of AI. I'm similarly leery of this for the same reasons covered in the post. Solopreneurs were generally technical people who had been forced to learn the business side after playing a senior role, generally a CTO or CEO, of a previous startup. They are "full stack" founders, who have deep understanding of the entire business stack, both on the business and technical side. These special people will likely be supercharged by AI, which they can intelligently direct to offload much of the grunt work, both on the technical side, and on the business side, especially for marketing.
I agree, but I think we are talking about slightly different things. I am not skeptical of solopreneurs at all (I have been one myself). The post is more about the current idea that large companies can keep replacing entire teams with AI until eventually there is barely anyone left.
It makes a lot more sense to replace CEOs with AI. They can hold a lot of context at once, can access company data instantly, and probably would cost an order of magnitude less.
Regarding your last point, I don’t think leadership remuneration is something most corporations are concerned with, otherwise there would be some pressure for it to go down, which isn’t the case. The AI won’t go on podcast to sell the company vision, or raise money from VCs
Thought about it quite a bit. The responsibility is something your need a human to bear. Once we can sue an AI agent, the CEOs will be gone, lol
Exactly. Delegating authority is easy. Delegating legal and moral responsibility is a very different problem.
In theory, yes. In practice, AI is not great at influencing momentum which is what the best CEOs are best at.
What practice? I'd like to see non-trivial uses of this outside scenarios other than this [0] which even now seems to show slow but steady improvements over time.
As for the Machiavellian scheming aspect, this seems to me to be very much like the operations of some real-world human CEOs.
[0] https://news.sky.com/story/claude-opus-4-6-this-ai-just-pass...
Yes. Processing information is one thing. Creating momentum among investors, employees, partners, and customers who often want different things is another.
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