@levie The better agents get, the more important the deterministic layer underneath them becomes. The agent can reason, but it still needs to know what’s true, what it’s allowed to do, and why.
Exactly. And good call on separating memory from outcomes. That framing actually helped sharpen how I’m thinking about it. A past decision isn’t automatically current policy, and an approved decision isn’t necessarily a good one. The system needs to know what was true, what is true now, what people chose, and whether it actually worked.
I think we’re going to build companies very differently over the next 10 years.
The first wave of AI has mostly been about making people more productive.
I think the bigger change will be designing companies around AI from the beginning.
I’m trying to do that now.
My basic thesis:
Software shouldn’t give employees more things to manage.
It should understand the business, do most of the work, and bring humans the decisions that actually require judgment.
That changes the way you build the company around it.
Instead of hiring 20 people and giving them better software, maybe you hire 3 exceptional people supervising AI systems that do much of the work of the other 17.
But those systems need more than an LLM.
They need persistent business memory.
Rules and policies.
Authority boundaries.
Evidence.
Decision history.
Outcome tracking.
The ability to act across existing systems.
And the ability to learn when humans correct them.
The interesting part isn’t replacing people with chatbots.
It’s redesigning the operating model around a much smaller number of people spending their time on higher-value decisions.
I’m building a company around this thesis now, starting in an industry I know extremely well and with some of the messiest back-office workflows I know.
I don’t know how far the idea goes yet.
But after five months of building this way, I’m increasingly convinced this is what a lot of companies will eventually look like.
@BitcoinArchive At this stage, not sure as I would have expected the price to actually increqse in the past year based on the amount being purchased and stored. The fact we are sitting where we are baffles me.
@SahilBloom@BrentBeshore Love to hear it, Sahil. The “never drink at all” version of health is getting a bit overplayed. Great wine still has a place at the table on the right occasions.
Just accidentally started 3 new agents in Claude Code without @conductor_build and I am hating it! Once you understand how amazing this app is, you will never go back.