## Metadata - Author:: [[peter-reinhardt|Peter Reinhardt]] - Full Title:: Replacing Middle Management With APIs - Category:: #🗞️Articles - Document Tags:: [[Bullshit jobs|Bullshit Jobs]] - URL:: https://rein.pk/replacing-middle-management-with-apis - Finished date:: [[2023-01-07]] ## Highlights - What does that make the drivers? Cogs in a giant automated dispatching machine, controlled through clever programming optimizations like surge pricing? ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gnvwtwb74xfr56nhr15xb6sp)) - But driving as an occupation will disappear practically overnight when self-driving cars hit the road. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gnvwvtagatczqwkwfgbxvmr0)) - Once you introduce the software layer between “management” (Uber’s full-time employees building the app and computer systems) and the human workers below the software layer (Uber’s drivers, Instacart’s delivery people), there’s no obvious path upwards. In fact, there’s a massive gap and no systems in place to bridge it. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gnvwxb47jhhmvc07eq9d1xey)) - these software layers will only get thicker ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gnxz0a5wreyf8yq4ayktk2vw))