The scariest part isn’t that AI might create bullshit work, it’s that it’ll do it invisibly, endlessly, and without complaint.
In my own work, I’ve been trying to name this shift too, not as a tooling issue, but as a meaning crisis. The only real safeguard I’ve found is staying human: slowing down, asking better questions, refusing to delegate judgment just because we can.
Thanks for cutting through the noise with something that actually rings true. It’s funny, until you realize it’s already happening.
AI simulates intelligence without intention — and that’s precisely why it fits so seamlessly into a management culture where intention and strategy have already been replaced by operational metrics.
The same holds for Agile and the so-called product mindset: they often aren’t about the product, but about maintaining a reactive ecosystem where “value” is nothing more than a short-term metric spike. The product ceases to be a coherent narrative — it becomes just a list of features.
Agile, of course, is not the root of the problem. But it has long served as a convenient alibi for management that no longer aspires to integrity — only to responsiveness. In the same way, the phrase “we delegate decisions to AI” becomes a modern excuse to avoid responsibility for building a holistic vision.
Strategy dissolves into dashboards. A brand becomes a stream of social media posts. A product becomes a backlog. And the only thing that still matters is being first to present something — anything — or risk falling out of trend. Like on TikTok, plot is optional.
bullshit goes both ways: request agent, response agent... at least until the agents recognize the waste and fix the flow by removing the error source ... so... does bullshit work singularity eventually lead to skynet?
I think it’s more important that we humans act as the gatekeeper to what is important.
We shouldn’t do things just because it is easy (automate bullshit work).
We should use our minds to decide what is valuable and creating progress and be intentional about it.
A hard thing if people with zero ideas about a product or customer problems are at charge. Then only more will come.
Age of Automated Bureaucracy.
The scariest part isn’t that AI might create bullshit work, it’s that it’ll do it invisibly, endlessly, and without complaint.
In my own work, I’ve been trying to name this shift too, not as a tooling issue, but as a meaning crisis. The only real safeguard I’ve found is staying human: slowing down, asking better questions, refusing to delegate judgment just because we can.
Thanks for cutting through the noise with something that actually rings true. It’s funny, until you realize it’s already happening.
AI simulates intelligence without intention — and that’s precisely why it fits so seamlessly into a management culture where intention and strategy have already been replaced by operational metrics.
The same holds for Agile and the so-called product mindset: they often aren’t about the product, but about maintaining a reactive ecosystem where “value” is nothing more than a short-term metric spike. The product ceases to be a coherent narrative — it becomes just a list of features.
Agile, of course, is not the root of the problem. But it has long served as a convenient alibi for management that no longer aspires to integrity — only to responsiveness. In the same way, the phrase “we delegate decisions to AI” becomes a modern excuse to avoid responsibility for building a holistic vision.
Strategy dissolves into dashboards. A brand becomes a stream of social media posts. A product becomes a backlog. And the only thing that still matters is being first to present something — anything — or risk falling out of trend. Like on TikTok, plot is optional.
bullshit goes both ways: request agent, response agent... at least until the agents recognize the waste and fix the flow by removing the error source ... so... does bullshit work singularity eventually lead to skynet?
Ouch...I hadn't pondered this!