Why are we hiring humans at all? Conor Brennan-Burke's answer: because they are spiky. If all you need is the median engineer, you are better off with a model.


Conor is the founder and CEO of Hyperspell (YC Fall 2025), the memory and context layer for AI agents. He left school at 12, started college at 13, led a $30M ARR API business at Checkr, and now says the worst thing you can do is plug an agent into everything: pick the wrong document and you are wrong faster.


Episode 3 of The Autonomous Company, hosted by Guillaume Marquis (co-founder, Pancake), drops Monday 8am PT. Follow the show so you don't miss it.

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