AI is turning everyone into managers... until it takes the management jobs too

tbh i've been thinking about this trajectory a lot lately. right now we're in the phase where AI is crushing technical friction, forcing devs and analysts to step up and act like project managers just to keep their seats. but that’s just a temporary pit stop. the second agentic AI gets reliable enough at multi-step strategic reasoning, it won't just sit in the execution layer. it's going to eat strategic decision-making, resource allocation, and middle management entirely. when an agent can analyze market data, simulate 10,000 product strategies, and pick the optimal play faster than a VP, what is actually left for humans to do? honestly we’re heading toward a weird dynamic where human work shrinks down to basically two things before physical robotics takes the rest. first is being a legal "liability sponge"—setting guardrails so the AI doesn't break laws, signing off on risk, and taking the blame when things blow up, since an agent can't go to court or sign contracts. second is just pure "taste"—deciding what we actually want and consuming the output, because AI can optimize anything but it can't intrinsically care about what's culturally relevant or valuable to us. it's kind of crazy that high-paying white collar strategy is getting automated before physical manual labor, but software scales at zero marginal cost while physical robotics takes time. once embodied AI catches up for that next wave of replacement though, the whole idea of selling time or expertise for a living completely collapses. anyone else feel like we're rapidly running out of layers in the corporate stack to retreat to?