I second what both @faul_sname and @Noosphere89 said. I’d add: Consider ease and speed of integration. Organizational inertia can be a very big bottleneck, and companies often think in FTEs. Ultimately, no, I don’t think it makes sense to have anything like 1:1 replacement of human workers with AI agents. But, as a process occurring in stages over time, if you can do that, then you get a huge up-front payoff, and you can use part of the payoff to do the work of refactoring tasks/jobs/products/companies/industries to better take advantage of what else AI lets you do differently or instead.
“Ok, because I have Replacement Agent AI v1 I was able to fire all the people with job titles A-D, now I can hire a dozen people to figure out how to use AI to do the same for job titles E through Q, and then another dozen to reorganize all the work that was being done by A-Q into more effective chunks appropriate for the AI, and then three AI engineers to figure out how to automate the two dozen people I just had to hire...”
I second what both @faul_sname and @Noosphere89 said. I’d add: Consider ease and speed of integration. Organizational inertia can be a very big bottleneck, and companies often think in FTEs. Ultimately, no, I don’t think it makes sense to have anything like 1:1 replacement of human workers with AI agents. But, as a process occurring in stages over time, if you can do that, then you get a huge up-front payoff, and you can use part of the payoff to do the work of refactoring tasks/jobs/products/companies/industries to better take advantage of what else AI lets you do differently or instead.
“Ok, because I have Replacement Agent AI v1 I was able to fire all the people with job titles A-D, now I can hire a dozen people to figure out how to use AI to do the same for job titles E through Q, and then another dozen to reorganize all the work that was being done by A-Q into more effective chunks appropriate for the AI, and then three AI engineers to figure out how to automate the two dozen people I just had to hire...”