Inflection AI, the start-up launched earlier this month by LinkedIn billionaire Reid Hoffman and DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman, has poached artificial intelligence gurus from Google and Meta, according to CNBC analysis. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, Inflection's aim is to develop AI software products that make it easier for humans to communicate with computers. When the company was launched, the only three team members that were made public were Suleyman, Hoffman and former DeepMind researcher Karén Simonyan. However, others have now joined the fold. Heinrich Kuttler left his research engineering manager role at Meta AI in London this month to become a member of the founding team at Inflection, working on the technical side of the business, according to his LinkedIn page.

Over the last few years, there has been a lot of research and discussion in the media over growing concerns that AI is automating away many types of jobs leading to several industries requiring far fewer workers. But, in this article, whose title is of course inspired by Marc Andreessen's classic post, Why Software Is Eating the World, we take a look at a related but not as much talked about phenomenon that has been slowly and silently occuring of late. That phenomenon is the new and perhaps even more impactful trend of AI eating up managerial tasks and replacing the need for supervisory managers. One of the ways to look at the traditional responsibilities of a manager is via the lens of the team management lifecycle -- it starts with building the right team through recruitment activities such as interviewing and hiring people with the right skills, then allocating them appropriate tasks and assignments, making sure they perform their tasks per organizational and regulatory standards and guidelines, and lastly evaluating their performance to provide helpful coaching and feedback as well as taking remedial measures as required. In the following sections, we will explore how there have been several developments over the last few years which have led to radical changes in how each of these areas are performed by AI driven or AI augmented systems. It's probably not a surprise that the hiring process was one of the first to be disrupted by AI.