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The Meaning of Work in an Age of Abundance: Finding Purpose When Agents Do the Heavy Lifting

This is another “thinking out loud” post, in the same spirit as the agent-first architecture piece. I do not know how any of this is going to land. I am writing it partly because the question has been rattling around in my head for months, and partly because I suspect a lot of people in and around software are quietly wondering the same thing without quite wanting to say it out loud. ...

April 23, 2026 · 12 min · James M