Evidence Over Attestation
“Thousands of people are now building with powerful agents; very few are solving a business problem, because the agents brought everything except the things that make a solution matter.”
The tools are no longer the bottleneck; the judgment to choose the customer's real problem and hold a standard for solving it is, and this essay names what that judgment is made of.
More lines from the same part
- “An agent will do the wrong thing faster than any team in history, with complete confidence and a green light at the end, and it will do it again tomorrow. Only a person can decide what the right thing is.”
- “The agents are extraordinary at everything except knowing what matters. That is why the people you choose to build with them matter more than the agents.”
- “Drucker said there is nothing so useless as doing efficiently what should not be done at all. Agents have made that the default failure mode of the era.”
- “Effectiveness first, then speed. The other order is how a company ships faster than it ever has and loses the customer anyway.”