Soon I will not be the bottleneck
Draft, set for 7 Dec 2026I've always been a builder.
Read the noteI've always been a builder.
Read the noteI don't think there has been a tool like this before.
Read the noteWhen everybody can build, you build what only you can.
Read the noteIntelligence is everywhere now, and the landscape will keep shifting.
Read the noteThe core of being an agentic operator is being very systems minded.
Read the noteI've built so many of my own tools this year.
Read the noteEven the way I design brands has changed.
Read the noteSo one of the foundations of the agentic operator is to codify things.
Read the noteI don't design by clicking every single thing myself any more.
Read the noteTo have the AI be really useful, and not be everyone's AI, you've got to teach it.
Read the noteThere's always been an edge to what each of us can do.
Read the noteFor most of my career, getting more done meant one of two things.
Read the noteEarlier this year, around February, I went onto Twitter.
Read the noteI think most people use AI as an oracle.
Read the noteI love making.
Read the noteThis experiment is an expression of the things I've felt all year, the stuff I've written about all year, the tools I have built all year.
Read the essayRight now I’m eating turkey pepper soup at my work desk, and I have multiple jobs running with AI.
Read the essayTen years ago I pitched a client a concept I called the brand ecosystem.
Read the noteI spent a day talking to my agent, and by the end the business had moved.
Read the notePositioning has been the most important idea I've understood this year.
Read the noteOver the past 6-8 weeks, I've been spending most of my waking hours designing workflows, systems and apps more than actual design artifacts.
Read the noteIt dawned on me the other day, that AI is simply templatised knowledge or templatised thinking to be a bit more accurate.
Read the noteWorking with Claude this whole week, I realised that text and voice are the new interface.
Read the noteAnd I don't even know how to code
Read the essayI'm starting a new brand called The Agentic Operator.
It's a space to share what I'm learning around AI and agentic workflows. Builds, software, design and the future of work.
Otoabasi Bassey