Don't be too hard-working to work.
The classic "top talent" often is. I've been on more than one "elite" team, the kind you measure in olympiad/ACM gold and headcount from top schools, with some of the highest-paid employees you'll ever meet. In the agent era, the very confidence and diligence that made them are what hold them back. They don't believe real AGI is already here, so they won't hand the critical code, the algorithms, the research itself over to an agent. The moment an agent underperforms, the reflex is "this thing is useless," not "did I give it the right context?"
Since the start of this year, I've fully believed agents are already smarter than most people, with no ceiling I can see. Every dumb mistake traces back to context we failed to design for them. That's the whole reason I started talking about AX, Agent Experience: stop assuming there's a class of work an agent can't do, and start asking what you forgot to tell it.
The talent of this new era wants to do everything the agentic way