AI agents increase decision load for CTOs

The author argues that AI agents do not increase organizational complexity by adding headcount-style communication paths, but rather by exponentially increasing the volume of decisions that engineers, managers, and CTOs must make and align on. While a team using agents maintains its small size and fixed number of human communication lines, the doubled output forces everyone to operate at a higher level, making more frequent technical, architectural, and product decisions with higher stakes. Open article →