What's this about?
Ethan Mollick points out that conversations and artefacts now span local computers, cloud sessions, phones and machines reached through remote dispatch. The capability improved faster than the user's ability to know where work lives.
What exactly is “dispatch” here?
It means starting or controlling an agent on another computer from your current device. It is convenient, but adds another location, account and state history to track — much like having documents split across several cloud drives.
Why is this worth noting?
The post had 786 likes. This is an information-architecture problem likely to become more painful as agents run longer: search, provenance, sync and a clear “source of truth” become product features, not housekeeping.