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Dan Shipper's analysis of Every finds the company automated nearly all feasible tasks with AI agents yet grew its human workforce from 4 to 30 employees since GPT-3

Report projects stronger effects as AI systems advance.

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We’ve automated every single thing we can @every with AI agents. And yet there’s way more human work to do than ever. We’ve gone from 4 -> 30 human employees since GPT-3. I wrote a report on the structural reasons: how AI makes expert competence cheap, why that drives up demand for experts, and why the dynamic only intensifies as we approach AGI. After Automation: https://every.to/p/after-automation

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"Every agent needs a human. The further away an agent is from a human who's doing it, the worse it does.

Even though AI can do expert human work, it actually increases the demand for human experts. "

~ CEO of Every @danshipper

10:28 PM · May 22, 2026 · 1.7K Views

This is good

Dan Shipper 📧Dan Shipper 📧@danshipper

We’ve automated every single thing we can @every with AI agents. And yet there’s way more human work to do than ever. We’ve gone from 4 -> 30 human employees since GPT-3. I wrote a report on the structural reasons: how AI makes expert competence cheap, why that drives up demand for experts, and why the dynamic only intensifies as we approach AGI. After Automation: https://every.to/p/after-automation

5:30 PM · May 21, 2026 · 575.3K Views
5:33 PM · May 21, 2026 · 139.5K Views

it's alive!

Dan Shipper 📧Dan Shipper 📧@danshipper

We’ve automated every single thing we can @every with AI agents. And yet there’s way more human work to do than ever. We’ve gone from 4 -> 30 human employees since GPT-3. I wrote a report on the structural reasons: how AI makes expert competence cheap, why that drives up demand for experts, and why the dynamic only intensifies as we approach AGI. After Automation: https://every.to/p/after-automation

5:30 PM · May 21, 2026 · 575.3K Views
5:38 PM · May 21, 2026 · 1.2K Views

@jamescham ❤️❤️

James ChamJames Cham@jamescham

Dan is so far ahead of the rest of us sometimes.

5:54 PM · May 21, 2026 · 8.9K Views
6:22 PM · May 21, 2026 · 226 Views

read the PDF: https://every-s-manifesto-production.up.railway.app/after-automation.pdf

read on @every: https://every.to/p/after-automation

Dan Shipper 📧Dan Shipper 📧@danshipper

We’ve automated every single thing we can @every with AI agents. And yet there’s way more human work to do than ever. We’ve gone from 4 -> 30 human employees since GPT-3. I wrote a report on the structural reasons: how AI makes expert competence cheap, why that drives up demand for experts, and why the dynamic only intensifies as we approach AGI. After Automation: https://every.to/p/after-automation

5:30 PM · May 21, 2026 · 575.3K Views
5:31 PM · May 21, 2026 · 13.7K Views

@lennysan thanks Lenny!!

Lenny RachitskyLenny Rachitsky@lennysan

This is good

5:33 PM · May 21, 2026 · 139.5K Views
5:34 PM · May 21, 2026 · 255 Views

@danshipper @every very interesting!

was any of this report AI-written?

Dan Shipper 📧Dan Shipper 📧@danshipper

We’ve automated every single thing we can @every with AI agents. And yet there’s way more human work to do than ever. We’ve gone from 4 -> 30 human employees since GPT-3. I wrote a report on the structural reasons: how AI makes expert competence cheap, why that drives up demand for experts, and why the dynamic only intensifies as we approach AGI. After Automation: https://every.to/p/after-automation

5:30 PM · May 21, 2026 · 575.3K Views
8:14 PM · May 21, 2026 · 1.5K Views

The Infinite Stack.

Problems are endless. You abstract a lower level of problems and create more challenges and more complexity higher up the stack.

Complexity breeds complexity. You get more jobs and more varied jobs.

This goes on forever. It's endless.

Dan Shipper 📧Dan Shipper 📧@danshipper

We’ve automated every single thing we can @every with AI agents. And yet there’s way more human work to do than ever. We’ve gone from 4 -> 30 human employees since GPT-3. I wrote a report on the structural reasons: how AI makes expert competence cheap, why that drives up demand for experts, and why the dynamic only intensifies as we approach AGI. After Automation: https://every.to/p/after-automation

5:30 PM · May 21, 2026 · 575.3K Views
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