CEOs Isolate Engineers To Build AI Agents

This opinion advises CEOs behind on AI to physically separate 10–20 top engineers into a standalone team to build a category-leading AI agent, setting a six-month milestone and providing GPU budgets and data access. The author argues isolation enables rapid daily experimentation and avoids organizational antibodies, noting the approach is a high-risk bet but necessary to avoid being displaced by startups or horizontal platforms in 2025–2026.