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About work
Before talking about agents, it’s worth understanding what productivity is and why it has never depended on effort.
Covers: Time as a measure of wealth · The invisible army supporting you · The peak of working hours and the effort revolution · Productivity is a property of place
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Why the company changes
The economic thesis: why agents change the org chart, not just the software.
Covers: Cognitive Enterprise · AI Factory · Internal Transaction Cost · Result / Outcome
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What a Real Agent Is
The technical minimum everyone needs to understand, whether they’re in a technical role or not.
Covers: LLM · Token · Agent · Loop
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Multiple agents working together
When one agent isn’t enough: teams, orchestration, and handoffs.
Covers: Subagent · Multi-agent · Agent Teams · Orchestrator / Routing
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How company knowledge gets in
The module that stalls projects in traditional companies: ontology, SOPs, and accessible data.
Covers: Ontology · SOP-as-Code · RAG / Retrieval · Graph Engineering
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How It’s Built
Spec as contract, test as specification, and work that compounds.
Covers: Spec / PRD-driven development · Design Mock · Research · TDD (Test-Driven Development)
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How Trust Is Built
Autonomy is granted based on evidence, and evidence requires a method.
Covers: Self-verification · Human baseline · Evals · Golden Dataset
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How it’s controlled
Gates, guardrails, permissions, and the kill switch.
Covers: Human-in-the-Loop / Approval Gates · Levels of Autonomy · Guardrails · Policies / Business Rules
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How it’s organized and what it costs
DRI, span of control, and the math that decides what to automate.
Covers: DRI (Directly Responsible Individual) · Span of Control (redefined) · Agent Unit Economics · Requisite Variety (Ashby)
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