e543 — Rent-a-Anything

e543 — Rent-a-Anything

From Games At Work dot Biz by Michael Rowe, Michael Martine, Andy Piper

February 16, 2026 · 31 min · Season 15 · Episode 543

About this episode

The episode discusses Agentic AI, productivity influences, and innovative tools for work.

Photo by Viktor Keri on Unsplash Published 16 February 2026 e543 with Andy, Michael and Michael – Stories and discussion on Agentic AI and the changing nature of work, agents renting humans, real time translation, artistic roads, e-bikes for your feet and a whole lot more. Andy, Michael and Michael get things rolling with several AI articles.  First up, is a Mastodon post by Alan Pringle that called attention to a HBR article on the influence of AI on productivity.  This then led to a post on productivity acceleration technologies from years past – from COBOL, which was designed to enable business people to write programs, to 4GLs to case tools.  Then, the team discusses a detailed post from Matt Shumer entitled Something Big Is Happening.  The entire post is well worth reading, not only for how history is unfolding in real time, also for the recommendations that Matt makes for people to take onboard right now.  Among the recommendations are to begin the habit of adapting, and experimenting with multiple tools to build resiliency and experience. Wrapping up this section is a new version of taskrabbit that provides an API for Agents to rent…

People in this episode

Hosts: Andy, Michael

Topics covered

  • Agentic AI
  • changing nature of work
  • productivity
  • real time translation
  • e-bikes
  • AI articles

Keywords

  • Agentic AI
  • productivity
  • real time translation
  • rentahuman.ai
  • e-bikes
  • AI articles
  • Super Bowl
  • Ray Ban Meta glasses

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: HBR, taskrabbit, rentahuman.ai, Tom’s Guide

Products: Ray Ban Meta glasses

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