Homo Agenticus

Rohit Krishnan · 21 May 2026 · strangeloopcanon.com ↗

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Our reading
A collection of AI agents does not automatically form a functioning organization any more than a group of smart people does.

Their wordsA pile of agents is not a company for the same reason a pile of smart people is not a company.
Our reading
AI agents will still need something like money to coordinate, since it compresses complex negotiations into one shared signal.

Their wordsMoney might still matter for AI agents because it compresses many messy negotiations into one shared signal.
Our reading
Centralized planning cannot substitute for distributed coordination among AI agents because it still fails to capture local knowledge.

Their wordsCentral planning is not a solution simply because agents are software, and do not fix the problem of local knowledge which lives near the work.