Evidence Over Attestation
“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.”
Hiring and trusting the right people is now the highest-leverage technology decision a CEO makes, because the agents amplify whoever directs them.
More lines from the same part
- “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.”
- “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.”