You can't fix at agentic scale what was built for human scale
petesena · x · 2026-10-14
AI practitioner Pete Sena offers a widely resonant one-liner: you can't solve a problem at agentic scale when it was built on a system designed for human scale. It points at the core tension in enterprise agent adoption — most processes, tools, and org structures are designed around human pace and bandwidth, so dropping agents in amplifies friction rather than removing it.
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