{"id":710,"date":"2026-05-23T07:44:35","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T07:44:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2026\/05\/23\/ai-vs-middle-management\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T07:44:35","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T07:44:35","slug":"ai-vs-middle-management","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2026\/05\/23\/ai-vs-middle-management\/","title":{"rendered":"AI vs Middle Management"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>AI isn\u2019t coming for builders or sellers, but it is coming for measurers. Tireless, independent, efficient and available, AI systems can now measure an organization with a level of objective detail and precision that was previously impossible even for the best employees.<\/p>\n<p>For Cloudflare, internal audit previously picked a handful of business risk areas to scrutinize each quarter. Now we\u2019re moving to a system in which every business risk is audited continuously. We\u2019re closing our books faster. We\u2019re making fewer mistakes and catching the ones we do more reliably. And, as CEO, I\u2019ve never had better tools to measure exactly how the business is performing, including identifying our rising stars.<\/p>\n<p>The vast majority of those we laid off last week were measurers. We cut middle managers across the organization because AI allows us to have more direct reports per manager while still measuring and mentoring our teams effectively.<br \/>\n\u2014 Read on <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/wallstengine\/status\/2057378437485216031\">x.com\/wallstengine\/status\/2057378437485216031<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AI isn\u2019t coming for builders or sellers, but it is coming for measurers. Tireless, independent, efficient and available, AI systems can now measure an organization with a level of objective detail and precision that was previously impossible even for the best employees. For Cloudflare, internal audit previously picked a handful of business risk areas to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5,53,38,89],"class_list":["post-710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-ai","tag-business","tag-society","tag-work"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}