My latest at Forbes: UiPath CEO Daniel Dines has a counterintuitive take on the agentic enterprise: it’s not about cutting headcount. It’s about doing 10x more with the same people. His frame is that AI agents handle execution and coordination while humans provide something he calls “taste,” which is judgment, aesthetic sensibility and a point of view. Things that are genuinely hard to replicate in a system trained on averages.
“In order to have taste, you need to have a body,” Dines told me on TechFirst. “You need to grow through all of these experiences to develop a personality, because LLMs are the average of everything.”
It’s a meaningful distinction, and one that runs counter to the narrative that the agentic enterprise is basically a polite way to say mass layoffs. The companies getting this right are the ones figuring out which human capabilities actually compound with AI, not just which ones AI can replace. The answer to that question is going to define how the next decade of work plays out.