Tagged "productivity"
6 essays · All essays
Ten Agents, 250x the Tokens
Forecasts of 24x token-consumption growth by 2030 are not aggressive, they are too low, because they model usage as if it grows linearly per user.
The Myth of the 50-Agent Founder
The fantasy of a solo founder running a company with 50 agents misunderstands what agents do to cognitive load.
The Dangerous Illusion of Giving Agents Access
Giving an AI agent access to email, CRM, documents, or payments is not a productivity decision.
The Anxiety of Infinite Capacity
AI removed the execution bottleneck. What rushed in was not a golden age of productivity but a quiet, persistent anxiety the old constraint had been holding at bay.
The Air Traffic Controller Syndrome
One hour with AI is not one hour anymore.
The Overnight Shift You Never Clocked Into
Agent orchestration imposes air-traffic-control-level cognitive load on knowledge workers — parallel monitoring, rapid context switching, vigilance maintenance — but without…