Questions
Three questions
Three questions anyone handing work to AI runs into. Each page says what is already known, what changes when agents do the work, where I stand today, and what would change my mind.
Hypothesis
Why a firm?
Economists say companies exist because finding suppliers, agreeing terms and checking work takes effort. Agents can make that easier, and work inside a company easier too. Whether the company then shrinks or takes on more, nobody knows yet.
HypothesisWhy a human?
A company can run with very few people. It cannot run with no one, and the reasons are not the ones people expect.
HypothesisWhy this boundary?
Haier, Buurtzorg and Zappos show different ways to hand authority to small teams. What makes delegation work, and what carries over to agents?