As AI agents become increasingly capable of autonomous task execution, they're reshaping how work gets organized—but not necessarily in the liberating way early AI evangelists predicted. Rather than reducing workload pressure, agents have created a paradox where the infinite backlog of previously impossible tasks now feels immediate and urgent, generating a psychological state eerily similar to founding a startup. Workers experience simultaneous exhilaration and overwhelm as automation expands what feels possible to attempt. The shift reflects a fundamental change in work constraints. Previously, organizational limitations—budget, headcount, time—naturally capped ambition. With agents handling routine execution, those traditional guardrails have dissolved, replaced by new bottlenecks around decision-making, prioritization, and human attention. This dynamic is forcing organizations to rethink roles, management structures, and resource allocation to prevent perpetual crisis mode. The episode explores how companies must evolve organizational design to make the agentic era sustainable rather than exhausting.