""One thing that I found extremely depressing is how atomized and siloed people are," Masad recently said on the "Possible" podcast with Reid Hoffman. "People become sort of cogs in the machine. And I don't think that is conducive to the human spirit." AI, he said, is starting to reverse that dynamic by letting people inside big companies build, test, and ship ideas themselves - without waiting for engineering approval."
"Masad's bet is that AI agents can automate much of the repetitive, standardized work that dominates corporate life - documentation, internal tools, workflows - freeing employees to think and act more like entrepreneurs. "As the boring things, the automated things actually are taken care of by machines, we're left to be more entrepreneurial and more creative," he said. Masad isn't the only tech leader seeing huge potential in deploying AI agents."
Modern corporate structures often atomize and silo employees, turning them into cogs and cutting them off from seeing the impact of their work, which erodes pride and human motivation. AI agents can automate repetitive, standardized corporate tasks such as documentation, internal tools, and workflows, reducing dependency on engineering resources and shortening feedback loops. By handling routine work, AI can free employees to experiment, build, test, and ship features themselves, enabling more entrepreneurial and creative behavior inside large organizations. Several technology and consulting leaders are already exploring or deploying AI agents to augment human work and flatten hierarchies.
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