When Verification Becomes the Job
As machines produce more, the scarce, paid work is checking that the output is actually right.
The argument
As machines produce more, value moves to whatever can check the output — tests, evals, proofs, audits. Verification stops being overhead and quietly becomes the job itself.
Some things do not move. People still want to be understood by other people. The agent can draft the message; it cannot want the thing you want.
When building a small tool costs an afternoon of an agent’s time, people build far more of them. Most never ship to anyone else. The long tail of software gets very long.