Aaron Levie: everyone becomes a manager of agents as work decouples from hours
inductionheads · x · 2026-11-02
Box CEO Aaron Levie, quoting Proton's CTO, argues AI is rewriting job descriptions: the new role is not using agents to help you write code, but leading agents so they write code.
Key points:
- Work is shifting from "agents help us do our jobs incrementally better" to "we help agents do their work," turning practitioners into managers of agent teams rather than individual contributors with an AI boost.
- Information-heavy jobs — coding, cybersecurity, legal, biotech, engineering — will be most affected.
- For the first time in knowledge work history, output decouples from hours worked: agents can operate in parallel, so leverage no longer comes from time spent.
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