> I’d say “push all your innovation tokens into agents” is probably a good move
Or better yet, just don't use agents, deliver something better with all the stability and boringness that you have. There's never been a better time than now to produce software that actually seems to work and march along steadily; your competitors are all flailing wildly like morons.
That's where the human factor comes in though: boring tech makes for boring work makes for bored people, and bored people quit (or worse, introduce complexity for the sake of it).
LLMs are better at churning out boring stuff, and you can see a lot of bored people perk up in the age of AI - they can now fire up half a dozen agents so they can express their ideas and see them made reality, instead of leaving their ideas to be ideas because implementing them is boring.