Podcaster who lost his team: intelligence solves execution, not coordination
lennysan · x · 2026-09-06
In the essay "The Machine That Builds the Machine," podcaster tarstarr describes losing almost his entire team over the past year — not as an AI-replacement experiment, but because they ran out of money.
Key arguments:
- Intelligence solves execution, not coordination. Future work looks like steering rather than rowing: your role becomes steering a fleet of agents.
- AI makes bureaucracy so cheap you can accidentally generate infinite amounts of it.
- The next scarcity is coherence: turning abundant machine cognition into a coherent operating organization.
Lenny Rachitsky amplified the conversation on his podcast.
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