📌 Burns & Stalker (1961)
"The appropriate system of management is that which is most relevant to the conditions of its operation."
📌 Burns & Stalker (1961)
"The appropriate system of management is that which is most relevant to the conditions of its operation."
Then everything changed.
Today’s organizations are fast, adaptive, and decentralized.
Agents? They still assume rigid workflows, fixed roles, and top-down decision-making.
Then everything changed.
Today’s organizations are fast, adaptive, and decentralized.
Agents? They still assume rigid workflows, fixed roles, and top-down decision-making.
AI agents (as currently designed) cannot.
AI agents (as currently designed) cannot.
❌ Markets shift overnight
❌ Priorities change in real time
❌ Decision-making happens at the edges, not just the center
❌ Markets shift overnight
❌ Priorities change in real time
❌ Decision-making happens at the edges, not just the center
✅ Tasks were predictable
✅ Workflows were structured
✅ Roles were fixed
✅ Tasks were predictable
✅ Workflows were structured
✅ Roles were fixed
AI agents? They still assume structure, stability, and predictability.
AI agents? They still assume structure, stability, and predictability.
before they’re even launched
before they’re even launched
or just rebranding old models in shinier code?
or just rebranding old models in shinier code?
it will fail the moment it hits real-world complexity.
it will fail the moment it hits real-world complexity.
it’s not the fault of the designers from the last century—it’s ours.
it’s not the fault of the designers from the last century—it’s ours.
So why are AI agents still designed like bureaucratic assistants?
So why are AI agents still designed like bureaucratic assistants?
A framework designed for the slow, structured workflows of the 20th century.
A framework designed for the slow, structured workflows of the 20th century.
And they’re already obsolete.
And they’re already obsolete.