. Sharon Gai 🦾

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One night during Double 11, someone showed me a piece of software that did the work of the agencies we had hired to survive it. At Alibaba, Singles' Day was a staffing problem first. The volume forced us to bring on extra marketing agencies every year: more designers, more banners, more rounds of sign-off. Then a generative design tool produced the same output in a few clicks. This was years before most people had heard of ChatGPT, and it rearranged the question I have worked on ever since. What happens to a company built on the assumption that work requires people? That question became my work. BEES AND BEEKEEPERS AI agents are bees. The future role of every worker is beekeeper: the one who designs the hive, sets it to work, and judges the honey. Each bee has a single job and the hive runs together. The human no longer produces the work, they orchestrate it. I run my own company this way, with several bees and one beekeeper, and it is the model I bring into every leadership team I advise. THE DISAPPEARING MIDDLE AI compresses organizations from the center out. Judgment holds at the top. Execution gets cheap at the bottom. The layer between them, the coordinating and summarizing an

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