Or a pigeon pecking at a checkerboard with randomly scattered bird feed.

On a serious note: all the heat and light is about AI for automating coding tasks, but a significant amount of management is just theater about deliverables. So much of that could be replaced by better product delivery pipelines that can accurately generate the "when can I expect this release?" without a layer of management that considers sitting in zoom calls all day work.

But maybe I'm just a little bit too jaded.