A recent and fascinating observation is that AI has changed the
way many things are managed, especially due to shifts in operating
systems, making what used to be a complex task remarkably simple. The
most intuitive example is from the Star Trek movies, where a single
person can pilot a high-tech spaceship alone when needed. This made me
realize that, in the future, it will become normal for one person with
an AI to manage or operate extremely complex organizations or systems.
The traditional management model is distributed. For example, in war,
the supreme commander indirectly manages subordinate commanders, who
then manage their own subordinates. This distributed approach exists
because of human cognitive limitations—no single person can directly
manage a large organization. But AI will fundamentally change this. I
can easily imagine AI becoming an exoskeleton for individuals at the
management level, enabling one person to manage or operate a vast
organization or system at once. So, the distributed model of human
organizations may be replaced by this new paradigm.
Another example is the idea of the one-person billion-dollar company.
AI drives this new organizational model, making smaller teams more
efficient, while large organizations may struggle to leverage AI as
effectively. This technology essentially empowers individuals to an
extraordinary degree, but at the same time, it makes power easier to
centralize. These are changes happening at the management level, but in
technology we see similar shifts. An individual, aided by AI, can now
interact with different operating systems in powerful new ways. AI
serves as a cognitive exoskeleton for humans, allowing complex systems
to be manipulated by a single person.
Examples include MCP, codebases, and even multimodal systems. All of
these ultimately allow people to more easily manipulate and understand
systems across different modalities.