Notion designer argues against personal agents: the future of work is a factory
nbaschez · x · 2026-10-13
Nathan Baschez (Notion product designer, ex-Lex/Every founder) pushes back on Silicon Valley's personal-agent craze (Grok Bots, Muse, OpenAI's Dots), arguing the future of work is more multiplayer, automated and specialized than any single agent can handle — "a Factory, not a personal agent." He also shares a hands-on workflow: using Claude via MCP to operate Lovable end-to-end, building a working app for his daughter's care team without opening the editor, including debugging a date-logic bug along the way.
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