Coordination before locomotion is the real insight here. We've been obsessed with the hardware bottleneck (robots can't navigate reliably etc) but completly missed that LLMs already have the capacity to organize human labor at scale. I remember when TaskRabbit launched everyone was worried about the gig economy atomizing work, this is basically that but witht he client side fully automated.
Insightful as always,but we should be careful not to mistake a "collapse of abstraction" for a sustainable economic model. The real friction here isn't just the cultural "creep" factor, it's the asymmetry of liability. If we move from algorithms managing labor to agents commissioning it, we aren't just seeing "AI embodiment",we're seeing the ultimate externalization of risk. Until the legal and insurance layers catch up to this "meatspace" bridge, these platforms remain high-beta experiments rather than structural shifts in the labor market. Capturing the "weirdness" is step one, but solving for the accountability vacuum is where the actual enterprise value will live.
Around healthcare there’s a big conversation about AI replacing doctors. This is a scary thought where I’ll be relegated to the role of a technician, performing procedures at the behest of an AI. Taskrabbit doctors incoming lol
If a robot needs the feels for golf I’m available!
Coordination before locomotion is the real insight here. We've been obsessed with the hardware bottleneck (robots can't navigate reliably etc) but completly missed that LLMs already have the capacity to organize human labor at scale. I remember when TaskRabbit launched everyone was worried about the gig economy atomizing work, this is basically that but witht he client side fully automated.
Insightful as always,but we should be careful not to mistake a "collapse of abstraction" for a sustainable economic model. The real friction here isn't just the cultural "creep" factor, it's the asymmetry of liability. If we move from algorithms managing labor to agents commissioning it, we aren't just seeing "AI embodiment",we're seeing the ultimate externalization of risk. Until the legal and insurance layers catch up to this "meatspace" bridge, these platforms remain high-beta experiments rather than structural shifts in the labor market. Capturing the "weirdness" is step one, but solving for the accountability vacuum is where the actual enterprise value will live.
Great piece.
Around healthcare there’s a big conversation about AI replacing doctors. This is a scary thought where I’ll be relegated to the role of a technician, performing procedures at the behest of an AI. Taskrabbit doctors incoming lol