The Quiet Takeover of Agentic AI
Nobody announced it. There was no press conference, no dramatic demo, no moment where the world collectively gasped. One Tuesday, an AI agent merged a pull request. The next Tuesday, it had merged forty. That’s how takeovers actually work. Not with a bang — with a calendar invite. The assistant that became the operator For a while, AI was a fancy autocomplete. You typed, it suggested. You decided, it executed. The human was always in the loop — not because anyone designed it that way, but because the AI wasn’t good enough to leave the loop. ...