A lot of people became managers because management was the best way to get leverage.
That's no longer obviously true.
A great IC with a swarm of AI agents can have insane leverage.
If you're a manager who wants to go back to being an IC and see how far you can push this, I'm
Sam Altman @sama just ordered 7 ultra-rare custom Swiss watches from Vanguart, fully branded with the OpenAI logo on the dial. One for him, six for his inner circle.
Inscribed on the back of each watch is ‘if AGI.aligned: deploy()’ which was written in the programming language