Smarter AI Boosts Productivity, but Coordinated AI Could Make Firms Unbeatable
eherrerosj · x · 2026-11-08
The author argues that intelligence lowers the cost of doing work, while coordination changes the returns to scale. Once each new agent makes the others more productive, growing bigger also means getting cheaper — so smarter AI makes firms more productive, and well-coordinated AI could make them unbeatable.
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