If you sell hours, AI is a threat — it does in minutes what you used to bill for a day. If you sell judgment, it's the best junior analyst you'll ever hire. The difference is what you choose to keep doing by hand.
Perplexity just launched a managed multi-model agent platform that orchestrates 19 AI models. It is a direct shot at open-source agent systems — and the architectural trade-offs tell you everything about where this industry is splitting.
We spent years removing the human cognitive ceiling from our AI pipelines. That ceiling was not a limitation. It was load-bearing.
Hollywood gave us the wrong threat model. The real danger of AGI isn't killer robots — it's billions of humans thinking the same thoughts at the same time.