Discussion: What Stays Scarce After Running an Agent-Heavy Team for 2+ Years?
ThickDoctor007 · reddit · 2026-08-06
A Technical Director with a PhD in ML initiated a deep discussion on Reddit, sharing reflections after running an agent-heavy team for over two years. He noted that as the marginal cost of execution falls, taste in problem selection, accountability, trust, and precise specification become the truly scarce resources.
He posed three core questions to the community:
- What skill investment turned out to be a dead end?
- What broke after replacing a human role with a system, and how long did it take to surface?
- What do you now do by hand that you originally tried to automate?
The thread attracted numerous managers sharing practical experiences, serving as valuable first-hand material for understanding organizational evolution in the AI era.
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