Shenyu: AI's true disruption is not personal skills, but corporate organizational structure

Mars Finance News: On February 27, Cobo Co-founder and CEO Shen Yu posted on social media, stating, “The essence of business management over the past 200 years has been to make people revolve around SOPs (Standard Operating Procedures) as gears. Now that AI Agents are here, if we still force AI into old routines and use it as a side task, failure is inevitable. The true disruption brought by AI is not skills, but organizational structure. The larger the company, the more complex the SOPs, because SOPs are essentially ‘algorithms written for humans to execute.’ To prevent errors and liability, big companies keep patching SOPs, creating rigid, massive networks. Forcing autonomous planning Agents into this only causes computational internal friction. The way out is to break the SOPs and let people work around the Agent workflows: reconstruct processes into ‘intent and guardrails,’ where humans set goals and boundaries, and Agents autonomously optimize; employees become ‘shepherds,’ only responsible for rule arrangement, exception handling, and value judgments. Organizational structures will also be reshaped—department walls will collapse, cross-department collaboration will become millisecond-level API calls, and middle management oversight will significantly decline. The previous generation of digital SOPs like ERP/OA/SaaS will be replaced by a new framework of Agents based on ‘intent, dynamic flow, and human fallback,’ rewriting the ‘Principles of Scientific Management’ of the 21st century.” Today’s report: Twitter founder Jack Dorsey’s Bitcoin payment company Block is cutting 4,000 employees, nearly half of its workforce, as the company bets on AI to change future labor productivity.