I hope this means that at Block(head), he has already replaced his middle managers with AI. If not, he should do it now, and then talk.

When he is at it, why not replace the CEO? What does the CEO do anyway, take dumb decisions and collect large paychecks. Firing the CEO and replacing him with AI would be the smartest decision in the history of mankind.

Block Head Mr Dorsey should do it. Be a pioneer. Fire yourself.

I know what happens next. Clueless CEOs in other companies who idolize Dorsey will start throwing out middle management without making sure that AI can do the job. Layoff first, scramble later. If it works out, claim millions in bonuses. If it fails, get fired and leave with millions. Win-win.


Jack Dorsey says AI should replace the middle manager after Block cuts 4,000 jobs
https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2026/04/01/jack-dorsey-says-ai-should-replace-corporate-hierarchy-after-block-cuts-4-000-jobs

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Dorsey's plan strips out middle management, with AI handling coordination, product decisions, and internal alignment.

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• Jack Dorsey argues that his company's decision to cut approximately 4,000 of its more than 10,000 employees was not a cost reduction but a permanent restructuring to replace middle managers with AI.
• Dorsey previously said the restructuring was triggered by a capability shift he observed in December in tools including Anthropic's Opus 4.6 and OpenAI's Codex 5.3, which he said was now capable of operating effectively in large codebases.
• Corporate hierarchy, has always existed to solve one problem: routing information through organizations too large for any single person to oversee, something that AI is now addressing, Dorsey argues.

In Jack Dorsey's view of the world, the job most at risk from the AI revolution is the middle manager.

Dorsey argues in a new essay, "From Hierarchy to Intelligence," published with Roelof Botha, Sequoia Capital's managing partner, an investor in Block, that his company's decision to cut approximately 4,000 of its more than 10,000 employees was not a cost reduction but a permanent restructuring to replace middle managers with AI.

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I hope this means that at Block(head), he has already replaced his middle managers with AI. If not, he should do it now, and then talk.

When he is at it, why not replace the CEO? What does the CEO do anyway, take dumb decisions and collect large paychecks. Firing the CEO and replacing him with AI would be the smartest decision in the history of mankind.

Block Head Mr Dorsey should do it. Be a pioneer. Fire yourself.

I know what happens next. Clueless CEOs in other companies who idolize Dorsey will start throwing out middle management without making sure that AI can do the job. Layoff first, scramble later. If it works out, claim millions in bonuses. If it fails, get fired and leave with millions. Win-win.


Jack Dorsey says AI should replace the middle manager after Block cuts 4,000 jobs
https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2026/04/01/jack-dorsey-says-ai-should-replace-corporate-hierarchy-after-block-cuts-4-000-jobs

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Dorsey's plan strips out middle management, with AI handling coordination, product decisions, and internal alignment.

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• Jack Dorsey argues that his company's decision to cut approximately 4,000 of its more than 10,000 employees was not a cost reduction but a permanent restructuring to replace middle managers with AI.
• Dorsey previously said the restructuring was triggered by a capability shift he observed in December in tools including Anthropic's Opus 4.6 and OpenAI's Codex 5.3, which he said was now capable of operating effectively in large codebases.
• Corporate hierarchy, has always existed to solve one problem: routing information through organizations too large for any single person to oversee, something that AI is now addressing, Dorsey argues.

In Jack Dorsey's view of the world, the job most at risk from the AI revolution is the middle manager.

Dorsey argues in a new essay, "From Hierarchy to Intelligence," published with Roelof Botha, Sequoia Capital's managing partner, an investor in Block, that his company's decision to cut approximately 4,000 of its more than 10,000 employees was not a cost reduction but a permanent restructuring to replace middle managers with AI.

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Well, at least we're going to have test cases for the value of middle management....or not. If they come to operational gridlock or deadlines become arbitrary....but AI tells us everything is late....we'll know.

Will this moron file for even ONE more H1B after claiming everyone needs to be fired because of AI....?

Looks like he's applied for 20 H1B visas this year.

https://h1bgrader.com/h1b-sponsors/block-inc-m2m6rj1501

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When he is at it, why not replace the CEO? What does the CEO do anyway, take dumb decisions and collect large paychecks. Firing the CEO and replacing him with AI would be the smartest decision in the history of mankind.

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Corporate America right now..

All we need is C Level execs and AI.
Everybody else needs to be fired.

Dorsey is right, most often you don't "need" middle level managers. But I think they are very useful to keep a pulse on what's actually going on on the ground, and keep things running.
Most execs are clueless about everyday issues (which is a good thing). But that doesn't mean those issues don't exist. And someone has to firefight them.

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The thing is no one has conclusively proved who is needed and who is not needed. So I think Dorsey should prove to everyone that employees are not needed and fire everyone and let his company run on AI. It is even okay if he just keeps himself as CEO and fires everyone else.

CEO + AI ---> Profit?

Let's prove it.

Shocked a tech king with billions tied to AI (and a cult following) would suggest to cut middle management. Another example of the rich pushing for serfdom.

Block cut jobs because they overhired during Covid, did the typical tech thing of having too many middle managers, lost a ton of money on a bitcoin bet, and while revenue growth and margins have improved since 2024, they were not making nearly enough money for the products they offer. Cash App should be a money printing machine for them.

Dorsey was smart enough to know the investment community and fund managers bark like seals when tech CEOs wave an AI fish in front of them so making all these AI statements is only driving investment. It's all a distraction from his mismanagement of the company over the last few years.

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We are headed for absolute disaster. Humankind was not at all meant for this magnitude of change in such a short timeframe. This isn't "the cotton gin"...this is unprecedented. Arm yourselves accordingly.

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If you are having a lot of anxiety over AI, I suggest looking up a YouTube channel from a guy named Cal Newport. He's an MIT PhD computer scientist who teaches at Georgetown and has done a lot of videos lately on how to decipher hype from reality with AI. He's very calming. He has a great understanding of the technology and explains it well. There's a lot of bad information out there, some of it unfortunately being spread by some once-respected AI researchers who have gone slightly crazy (my words, not his).

Here is one of his videos on how to interpret and critique AI reporting.

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1981 Monte Carlo said:

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We are headed for absolute disaster. Humankind was not at all meant for this magnitude of change in such a short timeframe. This isn't "the cotton gin"...this is unprecedented. Arm yourselves accordingly.

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If you are having a lot of anxiety over AI, I suggest looking up a YouTube channel from a guy named Cal Newport. He's an MIT PhD computer scientist who teaches at Georgetown and has done a lot of videos lately on how to decipher hype from reality with AI. He's very calming. He has a great understanding of the technology and explains it well. There's a lot of bad information out there, some of it unfortunately being spread by some once-respected AI researchers who have gone slightly crazy (my words, not his).

Here is one of his videos on how to interpret and critique AI reporting.

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Thanks! Will watch it later this evening.
Saw this on Linkedin. Shows what's happening with these charlatan CEOs.

(For those who don't know, the dude is the pic is Jensen Huang, the CEO of NVIDIA which is squarely in the epicenter of the AI tornado).

Most "management" can be replaced by....nothing....honestly.

I was a regional mgr, with hundreds of reports in 24 states....did their HR, payroll, everything basically. Easy peasy. Corp America is designed stupidly with all of the layers of "management" with zero inherent value. None.

Interesting take - why replace a level of people mangers / leaders and expect that AI can handle thermostat arguments, late arrivals, passive aggressive behavior, election days, FMLA, they infinite grey areas in corporate policy, etc.
Top that off with eliminating an entire generation of future experienced leaders, don't see it happening. I do wonder what the value add for a low margin high volume CFO would be. It's all about inputs, and implementation by those pesky middle managers.

Block had 4000 middle managers!!? Out of 10,000 employees!!?

Talk about inefficiency.

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ErnestEndeavor said:

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1981 Monte Carlo said:

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We are headed for absolute disaster. Humankind was not at all meant for this magnitude of change in such a short timeframe. This isn't "the cotton gin"...this is unprecedented. Arm yourselves accordingly.

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If you are having a lot of anxiety over AI, I suggest looking up a YouTube channel from a guy named Cal Newport. He's an MIT PhD computer scientist who teaches at Georgetown and has done a lot of videos lately on how to decipher hype from reality with AI. He's very calming. He has a great understanding of the technology and explains it well. There's a lot of bad information out there, some of it unfortunately being spread by some once-respected AI researchers who have gone slightly crazy (my words, not his).

Here is one of his videos on how to interpret and critique AI reporting.

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Thanks! Will watch it later this evening.
Saw this on Linkedin. Shows what's happening with these charlatan CEOs.

(For those who don't know, the dude is the pic is Jensen Huang, the CEO of NVIDIA which is squarely in the epicenter of the AI tornado).

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I think that's a bad analogy. If you are a college graduate and plan on working in the normal business world then you would be a moron not to learn how AI works and become at least proficient in it.

I agree with the general premise that middle managers are in danger and there is much, much bloat in middle management. Middle management is a self-fulfilling prophecy from the POV of how bureaucratic a company's processes are. IOW, bloated middle management is directly proportional to complex processes.

If AI can (that's still the question; can it?) replace all of these complex human driven processes, then you really don't need all of them middle layers that companies have built.

I've never met a middle manager I've liked so I'm all for this

The real problem we are going to see with AI near-term is going to be overreliance and overtrust. A lot of C-suite types are pushing adoption on workers without understanding actual workflows and not knowing the insecurity and unreliability of these systems. LLMs can have tremendous utility as many have pointed out on different threads here but a lot of people pushing fast adoption don't understand the limitations or the security issues.

Anthropic, who created and operates the most widely used software coding model and has a lead in business contracts for their models, embarrassed themselves twice this week. They boasted about how much of their code is written by their AI agents, but their agents coded so badly that they leaked internal Anthropic databases out onto the open internet and in a different mishap leaked Claude Code's underlying control code.

When the most popular, most advanced, most widely adopted enterprise AI company can't even get AI right in their own company, it's a scary thought thinking about how many corporations are running headfirst into it without the appropriate approach.

I'm not against AI at all in terms of its utility. I'm worried we are going to see bad AI code and agents doing unprompted things because at their core they are not all that smart. They don't think, they don't operate like a brain, it is fancy story completion.

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Dorsey and intelligence don't belong in the same language, much less the same sentence.

He's very intelligent...but like a fox.

Uh oh....those evil CEO's are at it again

1981 Monte Carlo said:

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We are headed for absolute disaster. Humankind was not at all meant for this magnitude of change in such a short timeframe. This isn't "the cotton gin"...this is unprecedented. Arm yourselves accordingly.

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i work for a mag 7 company as a software engineer. a year ago 5% of the code we pushed to production was written by AI. today it's over 90%. agentic workflows can already automate just about any non-critical task that requires a computer, and we're rapidly heading toward them doing these autonomously.

AI will do to knowledge work what automation did to the rust belt and it's coming faster than many think.

I cannot wait to be replaced. It's called retirement.

Agree with this.

AI had nothing to do with the source map screw up. The source map was included accidently in the package during the build. It was human error, devops.

Apple did the same thing with their app store code and source map last year. It happens.

Unlike what the misinformed believe about AI usage at the LLM companies, humans are involved in the process.

There. Problem solved.

I love how CEOs can fix everything.

Perplexity CEO says AI layoffs aren't so bad because people hate their jobs anyways: 'That sort of glorious future is what we should look forward to'
https://fortune.com/2026/03/24/perplexity-ceo-ai-layoffs-not-bad-people-hate-jobs-entrepreneurship/

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Tech executives have offered foreboding visions of the future of work due to AI, with ServiceNow CEO Bill McDermott predicting unemployment will exceed 30% in a matter of years.


But Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas says that's nothing to be afraid of.
People should embrace the future of AI job displacement, Srinivas said in an episode of the All-In podcast released on Monday and recorded at Nvidia GTC last week. While AI may lead to unemployment, that job displacement subsequently frees people from careers they may not have enjoyed, he suggested. This, instead, gives them opportunities to pursue entrepreneurship.


"The reality is most people don't enjoy their jobs," Srinivas said. "There's suddenly a new possibility, a new opportunity, to go use these tools, learn them, and start your own mini business…Even if there is temporary job displacement to deal with, that sort of glorious future is what we should look forward to."

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Do you have a "CEOs saying stupid **** !!" search filter or something?

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infinity ag said:

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ErnestEndeavor said:

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1981 Monte Carlo said:

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We are headed for absolute disaster. Humankind was not at all meant for this magnitude of change in such a short timeframe. This isn't "the cotton gin"...this is unprecedented. Arm yourselves accordingly.

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If you are having a lot of anxiety over AI, I suggest looking up a YouTube channel from a guy named Cal Newport. He's an MIT PhD computer scientist who teaches at Georgetown and has done a lot of videos lately on how to decipher hype from reality with AI. He's very calming. He has a great understanding of the technology and explains it well. There's a lot of bad information out there, some of it unfortunately being spread by some once-respected AI researchers who have gone slightly crazy (my words, not his).

Here is one of his videos on how to interpret and critique AI reporting.

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Thanks! Will watch it later this evening.
Saw this on Linkedin. Shows what's happening with these charlatan CEOs.

(For those who don't know, the dude is the pic is Jensen Huang, the CEO of NVIDIA which is squarely in the epicenter of the AI tornado).

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I think that's a bad analogy. If you are a college graduate and plan on working in the normal business world then you would be a moron not to learn how AI works and become at least proficient in it.

I agree with the general premise that middle managers are in danger and there is much, much bloat in middle management. Middle management is a self-fulfilling prophecy from the POV of how bureaucratic a company's processes are. IOW, bloated middle management is directly proportional to complex processes.

If AI can (that's still the question; can it?) replace all of these complex human driven processes, then you really don't need all of them middle layers that companies have built.

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Very true. Middle managers exist to deal with inefficient processes. They out out fires. Most of them don't know how to fix the problem creating the fires in the first place.

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Interesting take - why replace a level of people mangers / leaders and expect that AI can handle thermostat arguments, late arrivals, passive aggressive behavior, election days, FMLA, they infinite grey areas in corporate policy, etc.
Top that off with eliminating an entire generation of future experienced leaders, don't see it happening. I do wonder what the value add for a low margin high volume CFO would be. It's all about inputs, and implementation by those pesky middle managers.

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AI doesn't take vacation. AI doesn't care about getting promoted or growing its empire. AI doesn't ask for accommodations or have to leave early to pick up kids from school.

This resonates.

Player-coaches who combine building with developing people. They replace the traditional manager whose primary job was information routing. A player-coach still writes code or builds models or designs interfaces. They also invest in the growth of the people around them. They don't spend their days in status meetings, alignment sessions, and priority negotiations. The world model handles alignment. The DRI structure handles strategy and priority. The player-coach handles craft and people.

There is no need for a permanent middle management layer. Everything else the old hierarchy did, the system coordinates, and everyone is empowered, with a role that's much closer to the work and the customer.

1981 Monte Carlo said:

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We are headed for absolute disaster. Humankind was not at all meant for this magnitude of change in such a short timeframe. This isn't "the cotton gin"...this is unprecedented. Arm yourselves accordingly.

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We're going to be very sorry we let this genie out of the bottle.

Bad or good, if you don't have middle management you won't get senior management. How do you build a career path around AI?

Short sightedness for returns.

College is a waste of money. Sound like some middle managers will need to learn hvac