Godzilla Fish: AI's true disruption is not individual skills, but enterprise organizational structure

BlockBeats News, February 27th, Cobo Co-Founder and CEO Shen Yu stated in a social media post, "For the past 200 years, the essence of business management has essentially only done one thing—making people revolve around SOP (Standard Operating Procedure) as a cog. Now with the advent of AI Agent, if we still follow the old routine and try to squeeze AI into the old process to do odd jobs, it is doomed to fail. What AI truly disrupts is not skills, but organizational structure."

The larger the enterprise, the more complex the SOP, because SOP is essentially an 'algorithm written for human execution.' To prevent errors and liabilities, large companies continuously patch up SOP, forming a rigid giant web. Forcibly inserting an Agent with autonomous planning capabilities will only result in internal power struggles. The breakthrough approach is to break the SOP, have people work around the Agent workflow: restructure the process into 'intent and fence,' where people set goals and boundaries, and the Agent autonomously optimizes; employee roles become 'shepherds,' only needing to orchestrate rules, handle exceptions, and make value judgments.

The organizational structure will also be reshaped, departmental walls will collapse, cross-department collaboration will become millisecond-level API calls, and the value of middle-level supervisory positions will sharply decline. The previous generation focused on digitizing SOP with ERP/OA/SaaS, while the next generation of great enterprises will solidify an Agent framework based on 'intent, dynamic flow, and human fallback,' rewriting the 21st-century 'Principles of Scientific Management.'

In today's report, it was revealed that Twitter founder Jack Dorsey's Bitcoin payment company Block is laying off 4,000 employees, with a layoff rate close to half, as the company is betting on AI to transform future labor productivity.