Managers promoted past competence, and the people who stay

The "Petered" post, about what happens after the Peter Principle, drew comments about promoted-out managers who lean hard on relationships to survive. One commenter says organizations that tolerate this are miserable to work for. Another links it to the Gervais Principle, where the manager sits in the clueless class. A skeptic asks how common the illegal behavior in the post really is.

A side thread in the older Claude Code thread (47282777) is the opposite story. Senior people in their 50s and 60s say AI coding has reignited their passion and let them build solo, and one with bipolar disorder calls it an accessibility tool.

The contrast: in many orgs, status and relationships beat output, while AI makes individual output cheaper to produce. That shifts the balance toward small teams where output is visible.