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112: Your best managers are the most replaceable, with Prof. Charles Wood

AI isn't just changing how engineers work. It's forcing technology leaders to rethink what makes management valuable.

Prof. Charles Wood is Senior Manager, Data Science & AI at Comcast, where he has spent nearly a decade leading enterprise AI strategy, and the author of Artificial Intelligence Management. Most of the AI and jobs conversation focuses on developers.

Charles looks at the layer above them. His argument is that the qualities that make a manager good, like consistency, fairness and a repeatable process, are exactly what a language model can reproduce. He explains why the more…

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