He described waking up to thirty PRs every morning, each one pulled overnight by someone's AI, and needing to make snap judgment calls on every single one. The temptation to delegate the review itself to an AI was enormous. But, as he put it: "at that point, what am I still doing here?".

This is the trap many fell into.

A lot of managers are waiting to see this playout so the human in the loop can get kicked out of the loop.

He notes at one point that he's trapped himself in a Skinner Box, but seems to not understand what that means.

"That loss is real and it's worth naming" makes me have PTSD flashbacks because it's the kind of thing GPTs will say.