Understanding AI founder Timothy B. Lee argues that assuming AI requires no expertise is like claiming management has no learning curve

This is like saying there's no learning curve to being a manager because your employees will just do whatever you tell them to do.

@YangguangZhijia That is wildly oversimplified in both directions.

@phrygiandomina What do you mean?

@binarybits You're probably not going to like what most people think about the amount of learning required to be a soft-skills only middle manager.

@binarybits Most people would view managing competent employees who can accomplish what ever you ask as a zero learning curve job. Obviously thats just a bit of hyperbole though, I don't think prompting is currently a zero learning activity but it is always trending towards zero.

@binarybits But employees won't do what you tell them to do, AI will.

@binarybits Ha this is exactly the analogy that occurred to me as well.

A friend who spent 15 years as an IC and briefly became a manager said exactly this about management, pre-AI

It’s a take that seems right if you haven’t yet climbed the learning curve

@binarybits I disagree that there's no learning curve, because I see plenty of coworkers who are ineffective at using AI. But I do think getting left behind is not currently a risk because the technology is changing so fast that what you learned last year is basically obsolete.

@binarybits AI will never say something like this to me.

@binarybits AI won't read the room for you good luck managing that.

@binarybits Bad analogy. Your employees are not upgrading their IQ and capabilities every 2 months, which is what Joe is alluding to

@binarybits Lol