Have Your Factory Call My Factory

The authors argue that AI is shifting from destination intelligence to intelligence media, where intermediate products like "social kernels" move between contexts, and that a new "have your factory call my factory" (F2F) ecosystem of trusted individuals linking their agent factories will be a central feature of the future. The author describes building a book production factory with Claude Code, linked to publishing collaborator Jenna Dixon's factory through a shared Dropbox folder and a "manuscript transmittal" server, with neither of them writing code. The piece suggests the "factory owner" economy offers a new category for thinking about work beyond jobs and gigs, and concludes that the right question is whether the future is interesting rather than optimistic or pessimistic.