The Hyperagent
There are going to be two types of people in this world. Hyperagents, and people who live in the world that hyperagents build. That is not a slogan. It is a description of what is already happening.
A hyperagent is a human being who has wrapped themselves in AI systems that amplify their unique capabilities, judgment, and vision. They are not replaced by AI. They are augmented by it so thoroughly that they operate at a categorically different level than anyone who has not suited up. Think Iron Man. The human is still inside. The suit multiplies everything they bring.
George Mack wrote the best secular essay on agency I have ever read. He breaks it into three wheels: clear thinking, bias to action, disagreeability. That framework is accurate and sticky. But Mack never asks the question that follows: agency in service of what? You can have all three wheels spinning at full speed and still be building the wrong thing. I call that person an efficient drifter. High-agency, fully capable, systematically misaligned.
Hyperagency is what happens when you add the missing variable: alignment with what you were actually made for. Your divine edge. The specific intersection of your God-given gifting, your calling, and the historical context you find yourself in. When you know your edge and you suit up with AI that amplifies it, you are not just high-agency. You are aimed. That is the difference between moving fast and moving right.
This chapter walks through what it looks like in practice. The Iron Man suit as a model for AI augmentation. The vertical leap from skilled practitioner to industry paradigm shifter. How to engineer yourself as the default for your field. And why the pairing of a trusted domain expert with a strong AI engineer is one of the most powerful combinations available right now.