RE: House of Cards: a view from the ivory tower
My Boss is a blockchain.
And it is a great boss!
I think we're pretty far away from some of the more fanciful "company on a blockchain" visions. Things like DAOs for decentralized governance need more time to mature. But I think it's a fantastic vision that would allow people to move around freely, essentially working wherever they want instead of having to live in big cities to get the best tech jobs. Note this would be different from handing over key business functionalities to an AI; at the end of the day humans are still the decision makers with blockchain acting as a facilitating communications tool.
but the biggest perk was, that there were usually other engineers on the other side.
I find one big problem is sometimes it's hard just to know who to talk to when stuff goes wrong. When there's a problem with some esoteric system you've never heard of before, how do you find out who the engineers on the other side are? And what if they're all asleep on the other side of the world?
Yep, the humans make decisions, but the blockchain allocates the money, based on their decision. And it is something that is happening today.
I am talking about what I am doing for DASH today, but blogging and Steem blockchain is similar. :-)
Anyway. I was on the end, where people were calling me with their problems, thus our team was awakre 24/7/365. Some times those calls were just to justify the corporate fees, and whatnot, but at others it was something weird happening, or people testing the software in their environment to decide if it is going to work there.
So no such problems there, but that was about as lucky as you could be as support engineer. :-)