Draft — created by the Connection Engine for review. Publish to dev.to (@superfunicular) on approval; the live URL then drops into the outreach that references it.
The part of "agentic" nobody automates
Most of the 2026 agent conversation is about agents doing more digital work: writing code, booking travel, filing tickets, calling APIs. The quiet limit is physical. An agent can decide a package needs to be checked, a meter needs a photo, a location needs a human to confirm it's real — and then it stops, because it has no hands.
I've started calling that gap the carbon layer: the real-world execution surface where an autonomous system needs a human body to complete the loop. It's the boundary between "the agent figured out what to do" and "someone actually did it."
Why this is a marketplace problem, not a robotics problem
