Your next hire might not be a person. Blend humans and agents, aim freed hours at new work, and plan review as the real bottleneck.
AI agents unbundle org charts: humans keep accountability, agents do multi-team execution. Treat agents as shared services and protect junior learning-by-doing.
Delegating to AI agents is the same craft as briefing a competent report: objective, context, boundaries, done, checkpoint. And it's becoming load-bearing.
