AI agents talking to each other can save enormous time, but it is strange to imagine humans slowly removing themselves from the conversation.
My AI agent is talking to your AI agent.
This is fantastic from an efficiency perspective.
No scheduling confusion. No repeated explanation. No long email thread where both people are trying to sound polite while slowly losing the will to live. The agents can summarize, negotiate, compare options, extract action items, and come back with something useful.
That is obviously valuable.
A lot of communication is not sacred. It is logistics wearing a shirt. When two people are only exchanging constraints, availability, requirements, documents, or status updates, maybe it is fine if software handles most of it.
But there is something strange about both humans slowly removing themselves from the conversation.
At first, the agent writes the email.
Then it summarizes the reply.
Then it proposes the decision.
Then it negotiates with the other agent.
Then both humans approve something they did not fully think through from the beginning.
Maybe that is still fine. Maybe the whole point of tools is to reduce the parts of work that drain attention. We already outsource memory to calendars, routes to maps, calculations to spreadsheets, and introductions to social networks.
But original thought often appears inside inefficient communication.
Someone says something badly. Someone misunderstands. Someone pushes back. Someone notices a small oddity. Someone changes their mind halfway through explaining it. The conversation becomes more than the transfer of clean information.
Agents may make the exchange smoother.
They may also make it thinner.
Not always. A good agent might actually increase thought by clearing away noise. It might force better summaries, catch contradictions, and help both sides see the real issue faster.
But if every messy conversation is compressed before it reaches us, what happens to the thoughts that only appear in the mess?
I don’t know.
I like the efficiency. I will use the efficiency. I am already using the efficiency.
Still, there is something odd about a future where two people say, “let our agents discuss this,” and the humans arrive later only to approve the conclusion.
Useful, yes.
Also a little strange.