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The human population is about to peak, but the number of consumers is not. AI delegates will soon outnumber people as buyers, and this book shows what they will buy, from toothpaste and batteries to land, fashion and subscriptions. … readTrillions: The Consumer Economy After Peak Human
Termites build cathedrals with no plan and no meeting, because the work itself tells the next worker what to do. AI is about to coordinate our work the same way, and the hard part will not be communication but decay: deciding which trails should fade. … readThe Trail Is the Message
We call AI that acts for us an agent, a word named for what it does. The better word is delegate, from the Latin delegare: named for who sent it, bound by a mandate, and owing you a report when it comes back. … readMy AI Delegate
The word “user” describes a relationship with an object. AI is not a tool, so you don’t use it. You manage it. You are not its user but its manager, and delegation only runs one way: down, to something that answers to you. … readYou Are Not the User
When an AI agent fills an unbranded request, the default becomes the new eye-level shelf, and it will be sold. The nuance is in what is really being sold, what limits the price, and who should collect it. … readWho Gets Paid for Your Indifference?
Brands were invented to get past the clerk who chose for you. AI agents put that clerk back behind the counter, and DoorDash’s $17 billion deal for Instacart bought the counter. In 2030 it launches three brands of its own. … readThe Clerk Is Back: DoorDash Becomes a Food Brand in 2030
An AI agent uses tools to take steps toward a goal you give it. A chatbot can tell you how to do something; an agent can help do it for you. … readWhat is an AI Agent
In 1968 Dietrich Braess proved that a new road can make every driver slower without anyone making a mistake. Personal AI agents are about to make his theorem the rule for everything we book, reserve and race for. … readEveryone Finds the Shortcut
Dead reckoning compounds error until an observation resets it, and AI just handed everyone a crew that sails for days on a single reading of your intent. The scarce skill is no longer steering the work. It is taking the fix. … readTime Since Last Fix
AI begins to feel different when it carries a task through to a checkable result, freeing you from supplying every next step. The feeling is relief; the basis for it must be evidence. … readSomebody Handled It