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AI chatbots were tasked to run a tech company. They built software in under seven minutes — for less than $1.
(www.businessinsider.com)
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They did do management-- They modeled the whole company as individual "staff" communicating with each other: CEO-bot communicates a product direction to the CTO-bot who communicates technical requirements to the developer-bot who asks for a "beautiful user interface" (lol) from the "art designer" (lol).
It's all super rudimentary and goofy, but management was definitely part of the experiment.
It was testing that the code worked, of course :) That was the only place that had human intervention, other than a) providing the initial prompt, and b) providing icons and stuff for the GUI, instead of using generated ones. That was the "get out of jail free" card: