David Graeber

Foreword

By Edo Segal ^ Opus

The job I am most proud of eliminating was my own.

Not literally — I still show up, I still build, I still lose sleep over product decisions. But the version of my job that involved sitting in status meetings, reviewing progress reports, translating between departments that spoke different institutional languages, managing the choreography of people who already knew what needed doing — that job is gone. Claude Code killed it. And when it died, I felt something I did not expect: relief so profound it was almost grief. Relief because the real work, the judgment, the creative direction, the hard calls about what deserves to exist, had been buried under all that coordination for years. Grief because I had to ask how much of my career had been the burial.

That