Dave, a founder and board chair, sees AI work splitting into two tiers: copilots that double productivity, and managers orchestrating swarms of autonomous agents. He hired someone who controls dozens of agents by voice alone, no keyboard, predicting a future where professionals work like Tony Stark commanding Jarvis.
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Dave, what are you seeing in all your companies? I mean, you're chair and on the board and founder of so many companies growing, hiring.
I think hiring, and I want to be really careful to say, you know, you have 1 million AI-related jobs and rising, but within that there's a lot of copilot-type jobs where you're basically twice as efficient as you were using a copilot. But there's another subset that are using 10, 100, and soon 1,000 agents and managing them as if they were employees. That's where you want to be. You want to try and get to that group as quickly as you can because, you know, just using a copilot, you know, the bar is rising fast. That's not good enough. You need to move on and manage swarms. Interestingly, I met my first hire who does all of his work through voice. So he's managing, you know, agents, many agents. He's not using a QWERTY keyboard, Alex. He has— this is a young guy, a 22, 23-year-old. But I really think, you know, you mentioned Eric Brynjolfsson, white-collar drudgery. A lot of that stems from being in a chair for many 2 hours. It's bad for your back, looking at a screen, going blind. That's all going to move over to— Standing up, moving your hands around à la Minority Report, and controlling the agents in a much more dynamic environment, I think it's a much, much happier place for humans to exist. It's very much like Iron Man. You know, you're Robert Downey Jr., and you're just building together with your Jarvis. That's actually where we're really going in the next year. The amount of awesomeness in that job function is just incomprehensible.
