Survival Guide for an Agentic Gold Rush: Legibility, Narrative, and People
Everyone with a website was going to be rich — that is how the internet age came in, like a wave, a gold rush driven by a new, democratizing technology — all upside for us all. While the bright-eyed dot-com boom wasn’t entirely wrong about the future, it was spectacularly wrong about the winners. Many spectacular fails began with the next big idea, like thinking people would pay a premium to get their dry cleaning, dog food, and ice cream delivered all at once.
We are in a comparable gold rush now, but it’s faster thanks to Agentic AI, and it’s expected to mine new billionaires at machine speed. If that last sentence made you feel manic, good; we need to pause and think, because rushing to deploy an agentic army just to handle everything we find annoying means accepting the absurdity that you need seven AI agents to check the system’s own mistakes. This zeitgeist is existential for people and the organizations they work for. So should organizations ride this wave, let it rush over, or shape it?
Christa Bianchi dives deep into why people need agency to shape a frontier they can believe in, in her latest article for FormWave Collective. Read the piece here.
