The future of AI is already written | Mechanize Inc.
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How physical and economic constraints determine which technologies get built, and why full AI automation is inevitable.
The future of AI is already written | Mechanize, Inc. The future of AI is already written Matthew Barnett, Tamay Besiroglu, Ege Erdil October 6, 2025 Innovation often appears as a series of branching choices: what to invent, how to invent it, and when. In our case , we are confronted with a choice: should we create agents that fully automate entire jobs, or create AI tools that merely assist humans with their work? Upon closer examination, however, it becomes clear that this is a false choice. Autonomous agents that fully substitute for human labor will inevitably be created because they will
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