Dan Shipper: The knowledge economy is over — welcome to the allocation economy
danshipper · x · 2026-09-10
Quoting Dan Shipper's essay, the poster argues the bigger side effect of Slack agents isn't the work they do but that using AI openly makes entire teams AI-native: people see how AI-native colleagues work and start mimicking them.
Key points from Shipper's piece:
- 9B people are converting from deterministic binary software (click button, X happens) to non-deterministic software that can do almost anything
- "How well you can manage a team of agents is the new barometer of productivity"
- Every maker becomes a manager in the AI age; unless you're at a lab, frontier business, or elite startup, getting teams to actually use AI is a hard organizational problem
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