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Published by One Useful Thing (Ethan Mollick) (T1 source). The original is at https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/real-ai-agents-and-real-work.

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Ethan Mollick's blog post contrasting AI agents applied to substantive human-centered work against their use in producing large volumes of presentation decks, framing the choice as a race that shapes agent value.

Names a trade-off teams often ignore when adopting agents: optimizing for genuine task value versus amplifying low-value output volume.

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