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Two Fortune 500 execs stood on a summit stage last week and gave opposite answers to one question: is an AI agent a colleague or a tool?

One names his agents and seats them in reviews. The other won't call them colleagues. I watched the debate go by and realized I'd stopped caring about the noun a while ago, because it never once changed what I did with my backlog on a Monday.

So here's the thing I actually changed, and the part of it that broke.

The old default: sort by who's free