Vision
Vision
When Execution Speed Stops Being the Constraint
The engineer's fingers hover over the keyboard. Muscle memory fires—the syntax patterns, the familiar keystrokes, years of practice encoded in motion. But the act of typing code manually now triggers a wave of irritation so visceral it's almost physical. The skill remains intact. The tolerance for using it manually has collapsed. Work that shaped your professional identity now triggers active resistance. Something fundamental has shifted, and it's not just about speed.
When Execution Speed Stops Being the Constraint
The engineer's fingers hover over the keyboard. Muscle memory fires—the syntax patterns, the familiar keystrokes, years of practice encoded in motion. But the act of typing code manually now triggers a wave of irritation so visceral it's almost physical. The skill remains intact. The tolerance for using it manually has collapsed. Work that shaped your professional identity now triggers active resistance. Something fundamental has shifted, and it's not just about speed.
The Economics
When Power Availability Dictates Where You Can Build
Traditional economics suggest building where costs are lowest. Power availability dictates where you can build at all. Northern Virginia lead times stretch past three years. California interconnection processes run longer. When deployment windows close faster than grid infrastructure can be built, location preferences give way to power constraints—and organizations pay premiums for on-site generation because the alternative is waiting while competitors deploy capacity. Physical infrastructure determines what's possible before cost optimization begins.
The Years Your Organization Spends Escaping Platform Decisions
Platform decisions that optimize for current costs create constraints that reveal themselves only when you try to move. AT&T faced migration costs of $40-50 million after VMware pricing jumped 1,050%. The dollar amount matters less than the years required: engineering teams executing migration instead of building capabilities, operational bandwidth consumed managing parallel infrastructure, product roadmaps deferred because organizational capacity is spent escaping a platform decision. Reversing infrastructure choices costs years of bandwidth you could spend elsewhere.
Research Illuminating Tomorrow's Path
Stanford Maps the Automation Investment Mismatch
Y Combinator companies cluster in low-priority automation while collaboration opportunities go unfunded.
Interpersonal and organizational skills emerge as differentiators when agents handle information processing.
Research Illuminating Tomorrow's Path
Carnegie Mellon Redefines the AI Relationship
Transparency helps users learn independent judgment, but only when complexity matches their capability.
AI as organizational connective tissue in distributed environments, strengthening rather than replacing human bonds.
Research Illuminating Tomorrow's Path
How the Semantic Web Finally Happened
LLMs learn world representations from web-scale text, bypassing the costly ontology agreements that stalled earlier efforts.
Twenty-year-old vision of web-scale agent collaboration realized through fundamentally different technical path.
Research Illuminating Tomorrow's Path
Management Science Clarifies the Automation Decision
Between-task complementarity points toward automation; within-task complementarity suggests augmentation where humans learn from AI.
Humans must distinguish quality advice from noise, a skill that proves harder to develop than theory suggests.