Good Stuff 52 - AI First Organisations

Happy birthday to The Good Stuff one year in. Pete and Andy dig into what happens when organisations stop being sized for humans. Jack Dorsey's Block restructuring provides the jumping-off point: if hierarchies exist because humans can only manage so much information flow, what happens when that constraint disappears? The haul pack analogy returns - those mining trucks are that size because of humans, not physics. Remove the driver and the optimal size changes. Same with companies. The GLP-1 brothers with $500M+ revenue and two employees aren't an anomaly—they're the template. Support functions collapse, value streams remain, and "scopes" replace teams as the organisational primitive.**Key Moments:**- [00:07] "We just realised it's been a year"- [03:49] "AI becomes the centre of the organisation. Individuals move to the edge."- [05:55] GLP-1 brothers: two guys, OpenClaw, projecting $1.4B revenue- [06:45] Haul pack analogy: sized for humans, not physics- [08:36] "Do I want a thousand individual agents? One agent that knows everything? A command agent? They all have their downsides."- [16:22] "I'm aware that is not the standard view. But I'm also aware that I am correct."- [17:40] "If the shared service is automated, it doesn't need to be shared"- [28:01] "Trying to get AIs to have drive is hard. They just stop. They lie. They work around stuff."- [31:00] "I can't imagine having an HR scope. I just don't see the need for HR."- [38:49] "The human's job is to experience something and then desire change"- [50:37] Overheard lawyers: "The animus wasn't to do their job better—it was how do I prevent myself from getting fired?"- [59:47] The Venn diagram that never meets: tech people ∩ domain experts = where opportunity lives- [1:00:45] "This podcast appears to be the best place to hide these ideas"- [1:03:29] "Twitter is not social media. It's just TV on your mobile in small forms of text."**Friends of the Pod:** All the OG listeners (one year strong), the shark chopper, Alex (sorry about the name thing again), Lyn Alden, the GLP-1 brothers**Quote:** "Organisations look the way they look because of humans. If humans are no longer the default unit of work and intelligence, not only is there an opportunity for the organisation to look different, it's probably supposed to look different. Because it only ever looked that way because of humans."