Companies are adding AI agents before making themselves legible to agents
Druss_ · reddit · 2026-10-16
After working with agents in real workflows, the author concludes the hard part usually isn't the agent—it's making the company understandable enough for one to operate inside. Humans paper over undocumented, contradictory rules; agents don't. Using payroll as an example (exceptions, approvers, authoritative data sources), the author argues an AI-native company's real foundation is explicit rules, processes, authority, and data—making models replaceable workers rather than the system itself—and is skeptical of "deploy agents first, figure out governance later."
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