#AI Agents

I Built the Missing Piece of the Agent Economy

Last November, I was in my kitchen making a roux. Butter, flour, patience. A roux is the simplest thing in French cooking and also the most unforgiving — thirty seconds of distraction and it burns. You can’t fix a burned roux. You throw it out and start over.

I was thinking about agents.

Not secret agents. Software agents — autonomous programs that can hire other programs to get work done. You’ve probably heard the term “AI agent” by now. If you haven’t, you will. By the end of this year, every major tech company will be selling some version of the idea: software that doesn’t just answer questions but actually does things. Books flights. Writes reports. Manages projects. Hires other agents to help.