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this is actually what it should be used for. If companies pivoted their AI use to exactly that I almost guarantee you peoples opinions, i.e. middle manager wannabe techbros on linkedin, would change on it. But this is what AI should be used for. mundane project management style tasks. let your devs do dev work, let your upper management continue to do nothing and reap the rewards, and get rid of the yes men/women in the middle. THAT's when you'll see the shift.
Haha. Right now I'm untangling the mess of a small team that decided to use AI as their project manager (well, not exactly, but close enough). One thing I can say for sure is it did not work. Just like with development, you still need a human who knows what's what to manage AI and keep it in check.
The shift will be "you can make more paperclips. Make the paperclips faster."
We were doomed the instant we invented autoclippers.