Seeing like an agent

This has become part of a series of essays, evaluating the new “homo agenticus sapiens” that is AI Agents. This is Part I, seeing like an agent. Part II is why the agentic economy needs money. And Part III on what happens when we all have AI agents. One of the books that I loved as a kid was Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials. The books themselves were fine, but the part I loved most were the daemons. Each human had their own daemon, uniquely suited to them, that would grow with them and eventu...