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Your AI Is About To Hand You An Infinite Backlog

AI Breakdown ยท Oct 23, 2026 ยท 8m

๐‡๐ž ๐ฌ๐ฉ๐ž๐ง๐ญ ๐š ๐ฒ๐ž๐š๐ซ ๐ฌ๐š๐ฒ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ก๐ฎ๐ฆ๐š๐ง๐ฌ ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ญ ๐ฆ๐š๐ง๐š๐ ๐ž ๐€๐ˆ ๐š๐ ๐ž๐ง๐ญ๐ฌ ๐ฅ๐ข๐ค๐ž ๐ฌ๐ญ๐š๐Ÿ๐Ÿ. ๐“๐ก๐ž๐ง ๐ก๐ž ๐ซ๐ž๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ๐ž๐ ๐ข๐ญ ๐ข๐ง ๐ฉ๐ฎ๐›๐ฅ๐ข๐œ. ๐Ÿ‘€

Ethan Mollick's new position is that organising agents is not the hard part, because most of management exists to solve problems agents do not have. Information hoarding. Turf protection. Humans bring those along. Software leaves them behind.

This week on ๐“๐ก๐ž ๐€๐ˆ ๐๐ซ๐ž๐š๐ค๐๐จ๐ฐ๐ง:

๐’๐ฆ๐š๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ข๐ง๐ž๐ฌ๐ฌ. ๐๐ข๐  ๐€๐ฆ๐›๐ข๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐ฌ. ๐‹๐ž๐š๐ง ๐›๐ฎ๐๐ ๐ž๐ญ.

When organising work gets cheap, the list of things worth attempting grows. His phrase for the result is an infinite backlog, and somebody still has to choose what goes at the top ofโ€ฆ

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