Asha Sharma: prediction

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…So let's talk about agents. You spent a lot of time working with agents, building agents, helping companies build agents. Yeah. There's a really great quote that I love. You said that we're just starting to scratch the surface of what an agentic society actually looks like. I just love this idea of an agentic society. What does that actually look like in the future? Oh gosh. It's funny you were telling me about your two-year-old and I have my son Ron just turned one and I can't even imagine life at two. I'm just like that is so far away and what will have been developed. Look, I think that in the future, work will look really different. I think that we're approaching this world in which the marginal cost of a good output is approaching zero. And I think when that happens, we're going to see exponential demand for productivity and outputs. And I think that the way that you scale to that is with agents and it's agents that are embedded and their tools and their pieces of software. And I think there's going to be a ton of those far more than the software that we use today. And then I think there could be a set of embodied agents that are developed and we start to see that now, right? You can assign a pull request to Copilot. You can create a software development rep that's agentic that can do some of the lead generation and mining for you. And so I think that when all of that happens, the work chart starts to become the work chart. I think that tasks and throughput become more important than they have been before. I also think that you just don't need as many layers. I think the whole organizational construct might start to look different in a few years, and so I'm pretty excited about it. I think meetings will still be meetings and there'll be weird, but I think that will be a bit better and I think there'll be lots of changes. I think that for the average employee, my hope and my optimistic view is that they will be able to expand their skill set because now they have their own agents stack that they can bring with them to work just like you can bring your own device and you can start to have access to a set of skills that you never had before. And so if you think about the 20 million people that maybe sit in that space across America and they get 20% more skilled, it's pretty exponential for GDP, and so it's pretty fun. This comment you made about the work chart becomes the org chart is such a profound concept because I don't know if this is what you meant, but what I'm imagining is you build these teams and here's your mission and goal and KPIs and it's humans and like, "Oh cool, go do this first." And what I'm recognizing as you're talking is like, "Okay, but if you have agents doing that, that is their prompt, go drive conversion." And then you have all these agents and that's the org. This is the conversion onboarding team and that's like a bunch of agents off doing their work. Is that what you mean?…

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