The Firm has Experienced a Supply Shock in Intelligence
For most of modern business history, cognitive labour was scarce. Firms built processes to protect limited expert attention.
AI agents have collapsed the marginal cost of trying an approach, generating a draft, or branching into alternatives.
The Historical Baseline: Scarce Cognition
The Supply Shock: Agentic Abundance
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