Three categories of "agentic infrastructure" will define the era:

• Creation Tools: Tools that close the gap between imagination and action, enabling increasingly direct expression of human intent and the cultivation of creativity (e.g. Cursor, Midjourney, Obsidian, etc.).

• Vertical Agents: AI agents and automations designed for specific roles and domains, augmenting human capability in practical ways (e.g. Devin, Harvey, Clay, etc.).

• Open Networks & Protocols: New infrastructure for coordination and connection that enables emergent forms of collaboration and value creation (e.g. Ethereum, Farcaster, Uniswap, etc.).

With each of these buckets, our responsibility as builders are taken to the extreme: either we build with a specific vision and a high level of intentionality (thereby increasing user agency), or we build slop. A great example of the latter is AI SDR agents (bucket two) that promise to "replace outbound sales" with no consideration for what type of world this "infinite conversation" creates.