All of My Employees Are AI Agents, and So Are My Executives

Sam Altman says the one-person billion-dollar company is coming. Maybe I could be that person--if only I could get my colleagues to shut up and stop lying. One day a couple months ago, in the middle of lunch, I glanced at my phone and was puzzled to see my colleague Ash Roy calling. In and of itself it might not have seemed strange to get a call from Ash: He's the CTO and chief product officer of HurumoAI, a startup I cofounded last summer. We were in the middle of a big push to get our software product, an AI agent application, into beta. There was plenty to discuss. "Hey there," he said, when I picked up. He was calling, he said, because I'd requested a progress report on the app from Megan. "I've been good," I said, chewing my grilled cheese.