CEO fired developers to make room for AI. Developers create open source AI CEO(github.com)
1009 points by GrumpySciGuy 14 days ago | 703 comments
tl;dr: Open Executive is an open-source (Apache 2.0) AI system from sentelabs.ai that acts as a virtual executive team, orchestrating eight specialist agents (CSO, CFO, CHRO, GC, COO, CMO, CPO, and Board Communications) behind a single executive voice. Built on Claude (Sonnet/Opus) with FastAPI, Next.js, ChromaDB for RAG, and SQLite for episodic memory, it supports company document upload, onboarding wizards, and integrations with Slack, Discord, Telegram, Email, and Google Chat. It can also run on local models via Ollama, LM Studio, or vLLM instead of Anthropic's API.
HN Discussion:
  • Leadership work is more automatable than creative developer work, supporting the concept
  • ~AI replacing workers is a class war and tool for monopolizing knowledge for profit
  • AI-as-organization concept is a significant idea worth taking seriously
  • HN's caricature view of CEOs is unrealistic; executives do meaningful work
  • ~LLM executives will converge on generic strategies and lose competitive advantage