AI Agents Will Become 'Intellectual Factories', Leaving Humans as Middlemen
MarcJSchmidt · x · 2026-08-08
The author points out that for decades, industries and governments have been bloated with middlemen, obscuring actual value creation. Just as we never interact with the physical factories in China that manufacture our goods, AI Agents will become the 'factories' for intellectual goods, remaining completely invisible to the average person.
This echoes the quoted tweet's concern: humans are slowly becoming middlemen between two AIs trying to communicate, and technology's consistent historical triumph is cutting out the middleman.
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