Management is the act of ensuring humans do what they are told. Design is the act of building systems that run themselves. In an AI firm, you do not manage agents; you design their constraints and incentives. The "Middle Manager" (who mostly routed information) is replaced by the "System Architect."
The Supervision Tax
In traditional firms, 1 in 4 employees is a manager. This is a 25% tax on productivity. AI removes this tax because agents do not need motivation, coaching, or "alignment meetings." They need Prompts.
From Manager to Designer
Manager
- • Checks status
- • Motivates team
- • Resolves conflict
Designer
- • Audits outputs
- • Tweaks prompts
- • Updates context
Short Answer
If you have to "manage" your AI, you built it wrong. It should work or it should break. If it breaks, you fix the code. You don't have a 1:1 meeting with it to "discuss its performance."