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Agents won't kill business relationships. They'll sort them. The ones doing low-value information work will quietly become unnecessary. The ones doing the hard human jobs will become rarer, and more valuable.
Five things AI can't replace: trust, context, distribution, taste, and liability. These aren't product categories. They're structural layers that become more valuable as AI gets better, not less.
I spent the first three months treating AI like a calculator. Type a question, get an answer. Occasionally useful, mostly generic.
You're probably sick of being told to learn AI tools. But this isn't that post.
The agent hype isn't about AI capability. It's about human org design, and we're copying the wrong thing.
You've probably noticed I'm writing a lot. Here's why I keep going anyway.
For most of human history, the most valuable place to be was the middle.
Nobody designed the org chart as a management philosophy. It was infrastructure.
!The LLM is the engine. The harness is the car.
Unpopular opinion: building AI workflows that stop for human confirmation isn't careful design. It might just be discomfort dressed up as caution.
Dad. Yogi. Searching for what to build next. That's the order for a reason.
Two CEOs used AI to cut headcount dramatically. They made opposite bets to get there.