There was a time, not long ago, when a person had a thought.
A small thought.
A humble thought.
A thought like, “I should make a grocery list,” or “What time does the tire shop close?” or “Can someone please summarize this 900-word email from Derek in Compliance without making me taste pennies?”
And in those ancient days, the thought would become an action. A human would write eggs, milk, bread, coffee, and the little cheese triangles that make life feel briefly survivable. Or they would call the tire shop. Or they would ignore Derek, as nature intended.
But now?
Now we live in the age of agentic AI, which means your thought no longer becomes an action.
Your thought becomes a workflow.
And that workflow becomes a task graph.
And that task graph becomes six sub-agents, four browser sessions, three vector lookups, two planning loops, and one digital raccoon in a vest named ProcurementBot who has spent 11,000 tokens deciding whether “milk” means cow milk, oat milk, almond milk, or a symbolic yearning for maternal structure.
Welcome, puny humans, to the Great Token Bonfire.