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## Segment 6 — agentic

## Article 17 — a017

# Harang Ju

**Profile.** Author of the source article. Co-founder of [[entity-pairium-ai|Pairium AI]] (personalization for AI agents), co-director of the [[entity-ai-agent-lab-jhu|AI Agent Lab at Johns Hopkins University]], and an assistant professor at the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School. His research spans AI agents and the digital economy; he co-authored 'Collaborating with AI Agents: Field Experiments on Teamwork, Productivity, and Performance' (with Sinan Aral, arXiv:2503.18238). Canonical reference: https://ide.mit.edu/people/harang-ju/

**Role in this source.** Sole author and argumentative voice. Every thesis, concept, claim, quote, action item, and contrarian insight in this vault is his unless explicitly attributed to a cited theorist.

**Attributed contributions.** The thesis of [[concept-agent-first-rewiring|agent-first rewiring]] and [[concept-electricity-factory-analogy|the electricity factory analogy]]; claims [[claim-acemoglu-underestimate]], [[claim-screen-clicking-is-flawed]], [[claim-agents-collapse-hierarchy]], [[claim-hiring-for-agency]], [[claim-markdown-highest-leverage]]; the [[framework-agent-first-transition|Agent-First Transition Framework]]; quotes [[quote-electricity-analogy]], [[quote-acemoglu-floor]], [[quote-pretending-to-be-human]], [[quote-pdfs-are-outputs]], [[quote-human-role-shift]]; action items [[action-convert-to-markdown]], [[action-build-programmatic-interfaces]], [[action-hire-for-agency]], [[action-implement-independent-safeguards]]; and contrarian insights [[contrarian-acemoglu-estimate]], [[contrarian-rpa-is-bad]], [[contrarian-pdfs-are-harmful]].