Evidence Over Attestation
“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.”
Efficiency was once expensive enough to force a choice about what to do; now it is free, and the choice has to be made on purpose.
More lines from the same part
- “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.”
- “Effectiveness first, then speed. The other order is how a company ships faster than it ever has and loses the customer anyway.”
- “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.”
- “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.”