Why are you skeptical of the flat org with 25 direct reports and player-coach managers?

A lot of what managers do is fundamentally human work. Someone is unhappy. Career goals are unclear. There is a conflict between two team members. These things require presence and attention. If you have 25 direct reports and you are also expected to vibe code 80 percent of the day, you are going to have a lot of unhappy employees who do not know what is happening, whose manager they barely see. I support the philosophical direction that AI changes how information flows through an organization. I am not convinced yet that it should mean one manager for 25 people. Those two things can be true at the same time.