my conjecture is that coders are the new managers - because the new workers are CPUs and GPUs.
Prior to 2000s ish you needed people to do most tasks manually. Software has eaten enough of the world that most (middle class middle world) jobs are automated or can be.
And so you have a league of coders organising the work of the compmay on CPUs and then a layer of legacy managers who can't or don't code trying to work out how to pull levers they cannot see anymore.
But the best managers aren't what we are talking about. Or rather, what is the point of management - to organise resources to achieve organisational objectives.
Resources are now CPUs. A farm that bought a thousand tractors and combine harvesters but still tried to have the same manual labourer management practises, hiring, compensation would struggle.
We are seeing old labour practises trying to meet a world where one coder can launch and co-ordinate thousands or hundreds thousands of CPUs globally.
the phrase "are automated or can be" is doing a lot of heavy lifting, and the pure-opinion portion "or can be" is doing about 99% of that heavy lifting
put tersely, they aren't, and can't be in the relevantly immediate future, so the optimistic take might have been misconstrued as youth (since such optimism on average tends to decrease with age, in my experience)
it's a good premise for a sci-fi novel at the moment
Prior to 2000s ish you needed people to do most tasks manually. Software has eaten enough of the world that most (middle class middle world) jobs are automated or can be.
And so you have a league of coders organising the work of the compmay on CPUs and then a layer of legacy managers who can't or don't code trying to work out how to pull levers they cannot see anymore.