AI Agents Are Doormen — Why We Don't Hire Doormen

We don't hire doormen. We open doors ourselves. Keeping someone standing around just to open doors — that's a luxury we can't afford.

But what if that person only woke up the moment a door needed opening? What if you only had to pay them for the time they were actually awake? Depending on the cost, it might be worth considering.

Well, that's just called an "automatic door."

I believe AI agents work exactly the same way.

The Job of a Software Engineer

I'm a software engineer. Design, implementation, code review — I used to do it all myself.

Not anymore. Now I delegate each task to a dedicated AI agent.

For design, I have the Architect handle it. Implementation gets handed off to the Implementer. Reviews are done automatically by a specialized AI.

I've even set up a Design Compliance Auditor — an AI agent whose sole job is to check whether the implementation matches the designs a designer created in Figma.

This AI agent is, in every sense, the doorman of the software development world.

In this way, I've built an incredibly luxurious development team out of AI agents.

Conclusion — The Allocation of Roles

I believe the shift I've described here will happen not just in software development, but across all kinds of fields.

We'll give AI agents absurdly small, hyper-specific tasks that were previously unthinkable to delegate, while humans step in only at precise intervention points — and that's how work will get done. That's the nature of this change.

AI and humans are remarkably similar. But they are different beings. They wake up and work only when needed.

That's exactly why I think it's important to design AI agents with the mindset: "Can we give them luxuriously specific jobs — like a doorman?"