The agents have landed… Strange creatures that seem to want to mimic us, and maybe we should worry about them replacing us. Will it happen? And when? An analysis of a half-million words worth of AI agents that are trying to run an agency.
"Only 5% of my agency?" That's the part of what you do that AI can't replace. There's another 20% it's fighting you for, and if you know how to win that fight, you can build a whole business on that top quarter. It just looks different from the agency you run now.
AI doesn't just collapse the production layer of consulting. It counterfeits the surface of expert judgment — well enough that the buyer can't tell at the moment of decision. This is why retreating into judgment won't save you.
In his recent 85-minute interview with The Economist, Elon Musk laid out a future so expansive it barely fit in the room. But will that room still be there?
You don't need to understand what someone is saying. You only need to know what people usually say next. Same goes for the machine; but your AI is better at it than you are.
The next chapter of my book-in-process, The Mostly Helpful Psychopath, is now live. The Chinese Room, AI consoles my canine and existential woes, and proves to be a able replacement for an encyclopedia.
China just gave away an AI model that rivals America's best. The real danger isn't who's ahead — it's what happens when anyone can download it, reshape its worldview, and put it on a phone they sell for next to nothing.
Every time your team uses AI where the training data is thin, the output arrives fast and the tax follows: evaluating, correcting, reworking. Workday's 2026 research says 37–40% of the time AI saves gets eaten by checking its work. I think they're optimistic. Here's why.
