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The Developers Who Got Fired Built an AI CEO to Replace Their Bosses

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Open Executive shot up the Hacker News front page with a premise that sounds like a joke: developers who say they lost their jobs during an “AI transformation” built an open-source system designed to do the work of a CEO and the executives around them. The joke is easy to understand. The engineerin…

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  1. 2026-08-28 12:40 · DEV Community — AI
    The Developers Who Got Fired Built an AI CEO to Replace Their Bosses

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