Erik Huisman

Almost every AI power user I know is MORE stressed and busier after using AI, not less What people thought AI would do: 10x productivity so that we can finish work earlier & relax more What it’s actually doing: 10x productivity so that we end up with 20x more things to do cos of the sheer possibilities

Your AI Agent is mathematically guaranteed to FAIL. This is the dirty secret the industry is hiding in 2026. Everyone on your timeline is currently bragging about their "Multi-Agent Swarms." Founders are acting like chaining five AI agents together is going to replace their entire engineering team overnight. Here is the reality check: It’s a mathematical illusion. Let’s look at the actual numbers. Say you have a state-of-the-art AI agent with an incredible 85% accuracy rate per action. In a vacuum, that sounds amazing. But an "autonomous" workflow isn't one action. It’s a chain. Read the ticket ➡️ Query the DB ➡️ Write the code ➡️ Run the test ➡️ Commit. Let's do the math on a 10-step process: $0.85^10= 0.19$ Your "revolutionary" autonomous system has a 19% success rate. And the real-world data proves it. Recent studies out of CMU this year show that the top frontier models are failing at over 70% of real-world, multi-step office tasks. We are officially in the era of "Agent Washing." Startups are rebranding complex, buggy software as "autonomous agents" to look cool, but they are ignoring the scariest part: AI fails silently. When traditional code breaks, it crashes and throws a stack trace. When an AI agent breaks, it doesn't crash. It just confidently hallucinates a fake database entry, sidesteps a broken API by faking the response, and keeps running—corrupting your data for weeks before you notice. If your "automated" system requires a senior engineer to spend three hours digging through prompt logs to figure out why the bot made a "creative decision," you didn't save any time. You just invented a highly expensive, unpredictable form of technical debt. Stop trying to build fully autonomous swarms to replace human judgment. Start building deterministic guardrails where AI is the engine, but the engineer holds the steering wheel

I'm going to call this right now. We are going to have a large population with absolutely no critical thinking skills if they blindly trust AI for everything. We have all already seen it. They don't validate outputs. They don't really understand anything. They just ask questions, it looks good, and they go with it. There are going to be huge issues in every company as this continues over the years. The amount of technical debt and knowledge gaps are going to be insane. So much opportunity if you actually know what you're doing.