AI agents flood Slack: 'only human in the room' companies emerge
FinanceYF5 · x · 2026-10-16
FinanceYF5 threads two shifts: running a company can feel dystopian now — tiny human teams supervising hordes of agents, with Slack channels full of bots reporting to each other; and hourly billing is broken, as AI cuts task time by 80% (5x+ speedup) while rates stay flat, forcing freelancers and agencies to rethink pricing.
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