How Should Employees Deal With Their Boss's AI Output?

Summary

The article is a worker’s account of struggling with a boss who has embraced AI as a way to accelerate nearly every part of the company. The boss reportedly sees the organization as too slow, has discarded sprints and planning in favor of immediate execution, and expects people downstream to adapt. The worker now encounters automated Slack messages and polished AI-generated presentations as a constant stream of communication, but finds them difficult to read, interpret, and connect to future work. This creates uncertainty about what human employees are expected to contribute when AI appears able to produce the required outputs without them. The writer says AI-mediated communication has weakened the company’s sense of shared human context: people seem to be stepping into one another’s domains, while the resulting activity feels chaotic rather than coordinated. Access controls are described as one of the few remaining boundaries on what AI can do. The writer also worries that delegating more tasks to AI reduces personal memory because the work no longer carries emotional meaning, comparing the experience to dry, ineffective schooling. The article ultimately asks how companies can help people stay informed and work together when the volume of AI-generated updates becomes too large for humans to process directly.