I shipped an app. An Agent built it. Here's the part I couldn't hand off.
Product people have been told for a decade that judgment is the soft part of the job. Now it's the money.
The Loop #2: colleagues and contractors
Some of my agents are colleague-shaped but most aren't. Here's how I decide.
The Loop #1 — What even is an agent, and why mine have names
Check for new messages, do all the assigned work, save up any questions, check again for new messages until you've got none left, and then go back to sleep. That's a loop.
AI is making it cheap to build. That's the problem.
It's so cheap to build that it becomes painfully obvious when you're just running in place, getting nowhere. The only thing left to be good at is knowing what to build and having the nerve to skip the rest.
AI is eating our work
While a bunch of us were entering free-fall together I couldn't help noticing that this is a very interesting time for technologists. May you live in interesting times is, of course, a proverbial curse. Then again, "interesting" is a big part of what drew most of us into this ever-changing game of building digital experiences for people.
