Enabling agent-first process redesign - MIT Technology Review

AI is reshaping software organizations with smaller teams, evolving roles, and a growing emphasis on judgment over coding. Most companies have redesigned team structures but have yet to change decision making and accountability, leaving major bottlenecks in place.

Sound Sculpture Inc. (SSI), leading sound artists in themed entertainment, is celebrating its 30th anniversary and reaffirming its conviction that sound, when treated as a foundational design element rather than a finishing layer, shapes guests' perception of the entire experience. A pulley array being built in the Sound Sculpture Inc. shopImage courtesy of Sound Sculpture Inc. Spanning three decades and daily audiences of tens of thousands, SSI's work has consistently pursued what sound empowers, not simply what it sounds like. When Ben Herrington founded the company in 1996, he recognised that as many studios were discarding large collections of physical sound props in favour of offices and edit bays, the methods, devices, and techniques of classic sound artists were at risk of being lost. His brother, Roy Herrington, joined him in 2003, deepening the studio's commitment to the physical, performance-based approach that defines SSI's work, drawing on early sonic traditions largely shaped by their father, Walt Disney Imagineering media designer Joe Herrington. See also: Creating immersive worlds with Sound Sculpture Inc. Ben Herrington established the company with the belief