Thinking as an Option. Desire is the New Paradigm of 2025

From Thinking to Processing: The Shift in Cognitive Labor

Let’s start with a fact: a significant part of our work consists of reading or entering data. Often, we handle the same information multiple times, reading it from one place just to enter it somewhere else. Occasionally, we think, but most of the time, our thinking revolves around organizing information or managing processes that generate it. We think about optimizing permissions and restrictions for a teenager to improve their academic performance or restructuring a department to enhance efficiency.

Until recently—perhaps up until the very threshold of 2024—thinking was considered an essential activity. I think, sometimes on behalf of others, influencing them in the process. The first step in any setting—whether in a family, a company, or society—was to establish a leader, a thinker. Of course, thinking must be followed by action, but actions can be bought; thinking, traditionally, could not.

Then came 2024, the year when LLMs (Large Language Models) demonstrated their power, even in fields once thought to be deeply creative, such as computer programming and content creation. Thinking suddenly became a commodity. The new paradigm is no longer thinking but desiring.

From Process Optimization to the Rise of AI Agents

Since the summer of 2024, the tech and business sectors have been buzzing about AI agents. What are they? In reality, they are simple entities—small software modules scattered across different systems, each performing minor tasks.

An agent might read emails sent to a company’s "info" address, cross-check the sender’s financial profile online, identify if they are a lost client, and notify you via Telegram that this particular email deserves priority attention. Another agent might notice that an employee references a client call in an email when no such call is logged in the CRM. Another might track how long it takes your child to leave one geographic area and enter another and send a WhatsApp notification if the travel time exceeds a predefined threshold.

None of this is particularly new, except for two major breakthroughs.

The first is that you can create an AI agent without any programming knowledge. The second is that you can ask an agent to think before acting. You can instruct it in natural language:

"Read my emails, check the company CRM, analyze the client’s history, review past emails, check their social media to gauge their lifestyle, determine the best way to engage them in a purchase, and suggest a response via Telegram. If I reply ‘OK,’ send it. If I respond differently, interpret my message and refine your suggestion."

If you don’t even know which agents could help you stop thinking, you can create one that suggests the agents you need and then instruct it to program them.

The Inversion of Workflows: From Hierarchical Thinking to Networked Agents

The world is being turned upside down. In the past, a person would think at a high level and delegate smaller tasks to others, cascading downward in a pyramid of increasingly specific processes.

Now, small tasks, performed by networks of AI agents, combine into increasingly complex processes. These networks of agents interact, communicate, and build toward larger objectives.

It no longer matters what needs to be done—whatever it is, it can certainly be accomplished by a swarm of intelligent digital agents.

We have already stopped being amazed by LLMs that can translate in real time, adjust the tone of an email, or write a sales page. The real revolution that took place between August and December 2024 is that these systems can now write high-quality software, provide training, generate original ideas, and even verify whether we have understood them correctly.

Personally, I know nothing about crochet, but I am certain it wouldn’t take me more than 14 hours to produce a comprehensive book that links crochet to technical skills, human history, and even philosophy.

I want to write about crochet, and I will—just like Neo in The Matrix, instantly downloading knowledge into his brain.

2025: The Year of Aladdin’s Lamps

2025 will be the year of Aladdin’s lamps—ask, and you shall receive.

In Matthew 7:7—*"Ask, and it shall be given to you; seek, and you shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you"—the apostle was referring to the Kingdom of Heaven**, the liberation from suffering through vision and knowledge.

In 2025, suffering will still exist—but many will no longer have to think about countless things, because AI agents will do it for them.

Minds will train themselves to desire—and believe me, that is no simple task.

The Shift from Thinking to Desiring: A Psychological and Social Transformation

As we move toward formulating ever more abstract and profound desires, we will stop seeing ourselves as gods.

Thinking feeds the ego: "I think, therefore I command. I am powerful."

Desiring, on the other hand, opens us to acceptance and inclusion.

Thinking thrives in scarcity, while desiring emerges from abundance.

AI agents will bring abundance.

The New Divide: Intelligence vs. Imagination

But let’s not be naive. Matthew 7:7 is more relevant than ever—"Ask, and it shall be given to you"—but if you don’t ask, not only will you receive nothing, but you won’t even understand what is happening around you.

Modernity has been shaped by leaders and followers, by commanders and the commanded.

Starting in 2025, the new paradigm will revolve around setbacks and desires.

Some will get caught in the mechanisms of AI agents that are as intelligent as they are frustrating, and they will face obstacles.

Others will soar into a newfound freedom, one that requires only the imagination to embrace it, and they will be engaged in formulating desires.

It won’t be a matter of social class, but rather the power of imagination.

"Whoever has ears to hear, let them hear." (Mark 4:23)