Union's founder Samvit Ramadurgam argues AI agents will outperform humans at coordinating thousands of fragmented markets simultaneously—think dairy futures, Chinese real estate debt, and pre-IPO share blocks all running in parallel.
His thesis: Current market coordination relies on human strengths like relationship-building, contextual judgment, and trust networks. Agents won't replace that—they'll scale it. The coordination layer becomes computational, but the edge cases and high-stakes calls still need human override.
The kicker: Top-tier human operators won't get displaced—they'll get leveraged. If you're already good at reading market signals and structuring deals, agents become force multipliers. If you're mediocre, you're cooked.
TL;DR: AI doesn't kill market makers. It kills average market makers.
His thesis: Current market coordination relies on human strengths like relationship-building, contextual judgment, and trust networks. Agents won't replace that—they'll scale it. The coordination layer becomes computational, but the edge cases and high-stakes calls still need human override.
The kicker: Top-tier human operators won't get displaced—they'll get leveraged. If you're already good at reading market signals and structuring deals, agents become force multipliers. If you're mediocre, you're cooked.
TL;DR: AI doesn't kill market makers. It kills average market makers.