Destiny, you’re exactly right. Roles were a workaround for limited human time. Once time is no longer the bottleneck, bundling tasks hides where value is really created. That’s why this shift isn’t about new titles, but about redesigning work itself. From managing people to designing accountability. 🦊🎓
This framing around task-driven organziation over roles is sharp. The M-shaped orchestrator concept really captures that shift from managing people to managing system interactions, which I've seen play out in my own workflow when coordinating between automation and judgment calls. One thing that comes tomind though is the accountability piece you mention, it seems like defining clear accountability gets trickier when execution is so distributed across agents. How do organizations avoid that diffusion where everyone owns outcomes but nobodys really on the hook?
Neural Foundry, great question. Accountability only diffuses if ownership is left implicit. In agentic systems, execution can be distributed, but accountability must be explicitly anchored to a human owner per workflow or outcome. One orchestrator. One name. One escalation point. Agents execute, humans remain on the hook. Without that design choice, you don’t get scale. You get chaos. 🦊🎓
Thanks, Andreas. This is such a great post and a really important reminder that we don't all just need to retrain because of AI, but actually we've got lots of skills that can be amplified by these tools. Instead, it's a really important reminder. Thank you.
Sam, thank you. That distinction matters a lot. This is less about retraining for new tools and more about repositioning existing human strengths. Judgment, context, responsibility, and sensemaking don’t disappear. They become more valuable when execution scales. The real work is learning where to apply them. 🦊🎓
Spot-on framework! The three positions (Orchestrators, Stewards, Interfaces) capture how human work elevates from execution to system stewardship in agentic orgs, while preserving accountability where it matters most.
true "They bundle tasks because human time is limited."
Destiny, you’re exactly right. Roles were a workaround for limited human time. Once time is no longer the bottleneck, bundling tasks hides where value is really created. That’s why this shift isn’t about new titles, but about redesigning work itself. From managing people to designing accountability. 🦊🎓
This framing around task-driven organziation over roles is sharp. The M-shaped orchestrator concept really captures that shift from managing people to managing system interactions, which I've seen play out in my own workflow when coordinating between automation and judgment calls. One thing that comes tomind though is the accountability piece you mention, it seems like defining clear accountability gets trickier when execution is so distributed across agents. How do organizations avoid that diffusion where everyone owns outcomes but nobodys really on the hook?
Neural Foundry, great question. Accountability only diffuses if ownership is left implicit. In agentic systems, execution can be distributed, but accountability must be explicitly anchored to a human owner per workflow or outcome. One orchestrator. One name. One escalation point. Agents execute, humans remain on the hook. Without that design choice, you don’t get scale. You get chaos. 🦊🎓
Thanks, Andreas. This is such a great post and a really important reminder that we don't all just need to retrain because of AI, but actually we've got lots of skills that can be amplified by these tools. Instead, it's a really important reminder. Thank you.
Sam, thank you. That distinction matters a lot. This is less about retraining for new tools and more about repositioning existing human strengths. Judgment, context, responsibility, and sensemaking don’t disappear. They become more valuable when execution scales. The real work is learning where to apply them. 🦊🎓
A piece that needed to be written. Thank you Dr. Fuchs!
Spot-on framework! The three positions (Orchestrators, Stewards, Interfaces) capture how human work elevates from execution to system stewardship in agentic orgs, while preserving accountability where it matters most.