With agentic slop, we are trading software reliability for shipping velocity and calling it progress. It isn't. Systems are more fragile than ever, and engineers building them no longer trust their code to hold up in real-world edge cases.
I am pro-AI, but this will backfire - big time.
Business follows people.
Development follows density.
So at scale, it's not people who move to jobs, but jobs move to places where people choose to live.
Effective management is about tuning in. Some people respond to logic, others to emotion, and each has unique traits. Your job as a manager is to recognize and adapt—not standardize.
“We humans are first of all beings in a situation, we cannot be distinguished from our situations, for they form us and decide our possibilities” - French philosopher-novelist Jean-Paul Sartre (1946)
The problem in consumer internet is that users get dehumanized. To the spreadsheet jockeys, the user isn’t a person—it’s a subscription ID in an MIS report with an LTV, CAC, and a churn probability. But in reality, the “user” is a tired old man trying to call his son