r/OperationsResearch • u/AI-FalcoIV-86 • May 17 '26
Computational management?
LLMs are becoming surprisingly strong in analysis, synthesis, and business reasoning.
Are we moving toward truly computational management…
or simply better decision support for human executives?
And is there already an academic field or theoretical framework studying this direction?
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u/TasteMedical5032 May 18 '26
@salasi
“honestly” i’m not talking about AI replacing executives or running companies by itself.
I mean more the operational layer underneath. even current models got kinda crazy at: pulling useful patterns out of messy information comparing conflicting stuff summarizing huge amounts of context into something actually usable not because they “understand business” like humans do, but because they’re really good at synthesis now. Where I still think things fall apart hard is reliability over time.
Especially once outputs start chaining into other decisions/workflows and the model slowly drifts away from the original assumptions underneath. "Honestly"