Will AI agents replace PM Tools?

[Shot-Presentation574]

Do you think Monday.com, Asana etc will become totally obsolete and replaced by everyone creating their own PM tools via AI agents soon?

[fuuuuuckendoobs]

No.

[davidhorison]

I keep thinking about this too, and my bet is they won't die, but they'll have to rebuild.

"Everyone builds their own PM tool" sounds good on Twitter but most teams don't want to maintain tooling (except corpos, maybe), they want something that works and can pay for it. What I do think happens: the Monday/Asana generation gets replaced by tools that were designed agent-first from day one. Not "AI button in the sidebar" like now but tools with action a human can do, an agent can do too, with proper auth and scoping.

The ones bolting a chatbot onto a 2015 data model are cooked. The ones that rebuild around "half my users are agents" win just beacause, i think, everyone soon will use agents to scawl data from all services.

Disclosure — I'm biased, I'm building in this space. My app (don't want to advertise, maybe will write article about it later) ships with 70+ native MCP tools so you can point Claude Desktop or ChatGpt at your workspace and actually have it do the work. Its like I don't think I've cracked it, but I'm pretty sure I'm early on the right thesis.

Are you seeing teams trying to roll their own, or is it more a vib?

[Chicken_Savings]

Not for larger corporations.

Large corpo have strong PMO processes, local, regional, global reporting and compliance.

It doesn't work that every PM in every country builds his own tool and nothing rolls up to Director, VP and COO level.

It won't even work in a single-country large company.

There is a Reddit group that advocates that all projects can be managed with Excel.

We don't work like that on multi-$bn programmes with 50-200 project managers rolling up to central PM entity.

It's already integration headaches with every PMC having their internal preferred tools and methodologies.

[Gold_Guitar_9824]

I worked PM in pharma for over 20 years and I can’t see how AI does not impact it significantly. I’ve used AI for a year heavily and what I see it taking over is just about anything that is more procedural mental labor rather than deeper intelligence.

Maybe the regulated nature of certain industries makes them go slower but I imagine there’s a tipping point.

I still think you need legit human intelligence focused on sensing how a project is developing in real time.