AI;DR: Writing culture is dying and knowledge work isn't ready for agents
prd_008 · x · 2026-11-12
The author argues the shift that hit software engineering a year ago is now spreading across all knowledge work. Documents are the currency of knowledge work—capturing and dispersing thought so groups collaborate with shared understanding—and the decline of writing culture threatens that foundation. Outside the minority of companies that have fully embraced agents in every function, most organizations are unprepared for what agents embedded in the workplace will bring in three to six months.
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