a16z News argues that agentic automation and employee empowerment could reshape how firms organize work, while explicitly noting that organizations may struggle to evolve in this way. The commentary highlights Databricks’ Lakehouse and Lakebase architecture as a shared system of record that could let employees and agents act autonomously while preserving shared organizational state. It also reports that Databricks sees more queries from agents than people and that agents launch more than 17 million databases daily, though these figures are not independently substantiated in the supplied report.