Interesting article but I don’t understand this:

    When they can eventually work directly with one another rather than sitting inside human hierarchies, we will be dealing with a genuinely new kind of economic input.
What does AI working directly with one another mean? I don’t think it’s anything new - it’s the same AI working on a long horizon task. A big part of the article works on the assumption that this is qualitatively new way AI can work but I see it as a human operating an AI agent that does long horizon task that internally can spawn multiple subagents (but this part is abstracted from the user who only gives it a prompt).

Unless there are domain specific models, what am I missing?

I worked on something for far too long and even submitted to YC but the ultimate idea ended up a way to coordinate human teams (both on-shore and off-shore), human-AI teams, and while I didn’t know if it could ever be possible, strictly AI teams. I built the whole thing by hand in 2023 but even then I didn’t see AI agents being able to be first class members of a team, only being guided by humans. Think I ought to dust that work off and get some more feedback from people. Also try cleaning it up with AI.

It means they buy and sell services directly between each other, skipping the "meatbag middleman"

What would that look like in an example? A SaaS company selling its services to other agents in another company that uses that SaaS?

I can’t imagine AI making sales by itself