I was talking to a friend one evening. I was fresh off a day at work where I played commander with Claude. I was nearly giddy with how I had created a “chief of staff” Claude agent to manage my to-dos. As we talked, I became disoriented: I hadn’t gotten to unpack the details of how I had “hired” my chief of staff before my friend was talking about a laissez-faire government approach to data centers. How did we get so off track?