AI coding, flatter org charts and the “player-coach trap”

Brian Halligan’s recap of his conversation with Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi draws a distinction between information flow and managing people. Ghodsi argues that reducing management layers is directionally right, but expecting remaining managers to absorb three to four times the human workload while coding all day is wrong. Halligan quotes Ghodsi’s verdict on the combined management-and-coding demand: “That’s BS. It’s going to break.”