Replit CEO and co-founder Amjad Masad has spent the past year watching AI agents absorb the routine execution inside his own company, and in a thread posted to X on Monday, he argues the same shift is bearing down on everyone else, with businesses moving toward a self-driving company where, in his words, “humans exercise judgment and agents execute most of the work.” He rests the case on Ronald Coase’s 1937 question of why firms exist in the first place, the economist’s answer being that companies survive because coordinating work inside them beats coordinating it through open markets, and he...

Source: The New Stack