Agents, workflows, and the new division of labor between people and machines.
Artificial intelligence is leaving the chat box and acquiring memory, voice, identity, money, and bodies. As action becomes cheap, judgment becomes the scarce thing—and the question of what its hands are for remains ours.
There are weeks where you do good work and weeks where the way you do work changes permanently. We just had the second kind.
Founders keep asking how to build faster. That's the wrong question. Speed was the bottleneck for twenty years. It's not anymore.
Most AI-generated design is not ugly. It’s worse: it’s plausible. Craft begins when the brief stops describing and starts constraining.
Most prompts produce answers. Answers are cheap. Signal is what reduces uncertainty—and it’s what actually moves the work forward.
The centaur was human judgment augmented by machine power. The reverse centaur is human labor subordinated to machine logic. We are becoming the horse.