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AI Agents Are Here, Managers Are Disappearing, and Productivity Still Isn't Moving
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Feb 17, 2026: Today I break down five signals that are quietly reshaping work:
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OpenAI hiring the creator of OpenClaw—a major shift from chatbots that talk to agents that act
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Why "supervisors are disappearing," and how title inflation is quietly breaking the career ladder
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The AI productivity paradox (backed by new NBER research): adoption is real, impact is lagging
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Anthropic's push into "work tools" and the battle to own the workflow layer
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Australia's psychosocial safety rules—and why well-intentioned mandates can spiral into dependency, bureaucracy, and leadership abdication if we don't draw boundaries