Execution Got Cheaper. Direction Got More Expensive.
When agents can do the work, the value moves to choosing which work should exist.
Editions on the work that did not get cheaper. Agents made execution close to free, so producing is no longer the edge. What to build, what to ignore, what to hand to a system, what to keep in your own hands. Taste is the job now, and it is the one part that cannot be delegated.
When agents can do the work, the value moves to choosing which work should exist.
In a world of infinite output, the rarest skill is deciding what deserves your mind.
Agents got better at staying inside real work. Now builders need to define where agent authority stops.
One letter a week on building with agents, keeping ownership, and spending your leverage on work that compounds.