AI just stopped being a chat app.
And started being a labor market event.
Claude Opus 4.6 is the clearest signal yet.
Not because it is “smarter.”
Because it is built for:
long-running work
agent teams
real documents
real spreadsheets
real execution
That’s the shift.
We are leaving the era of:
“ask the bot a question”
And entering the era of:
“manage a swarm of bots”
Which sounds cool.
Until you realize what markets heard this week:
Not “AI helps software.”
But “AI eats software.”
That fear is not random.
If your tool can plan
delegate
review
debug
and keep a million tokens of context
Then the product isn’t the model.
The product is the replacement schedule.
And the companies that win will not be the ones with the cutest assistant.
They’ll be the ones that turn AI into a controlled workforce.
With permissions.
With audit trails.
With guardrails.
With a human still legally on the hook.
If you’re a founder, here’s the punchline:
Stop shipping chat.
Ship control.
Because the next software moat is not features.
It’s governance over agents that actually do work.
Repost if you’re done with AI demos.
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