I can hardly remember a time before cell phones.
That's what it's going to feel like in a few years but with AI agents.
The better parallel might be the internet itself — not just cell phones. When always-on information access became infrastructure, it didn't just change behavior, it restructured who could compete. AI agents do the same to economic agency: tasks that previously required capital or skilled labor now require a prompt. The second-order question is where that collapses the surplus — into the model owner, the prompt engineer, or neither.