Jack Dorsey says AI should replace the middle manager after Block cuts 4,000 jobs

Dorsey's plan strips out middle management, with AI handling coordination, product decisions, and internal alignment. What to know : Jack Dorsey argues that his company's decision to cut approximately 4,000 of its more than 10,000 employees was not a cost reduction but a permanent restructuring to replace middle managers with AI. Dorsey previously said the restructuring was triggered by a capability shift he observed in December in tools including Anthropic’s Opus 4.6 and OpenAI’s Codex 5.3, which he said was now capable of operating effectively in large codebases. Corporate hierarchy, has always existed to solve one problem: routing information through organizations too large for any single person to oversee, something that AI is now addressing, Dorsey argues.(Coindesk)