Sip one
H.R. Giger (1940–2014), the Swiss artist, built a dark world where bodies and machines grow into each other: ribs that become pipes, skin that becomes circuitry. He called it biomechanical.
He designed the creature for Ridley Scott's Alien (1979) and shared the Academy Award for its visual effects.
Sip two
Take away the nightmare and the idea is useful. The worst business software has visible seams: here's the human screen, here's the robot screen, here's the export between them.
In the systems we build, the agent and the person share one surface. The crew lead sees a ticket; the agent has already read it, checked the rate and drafted the invoice. Nobody switches tools.
Agents draft; people decide. Fusion, yes. Possession, never.
Sip three
Giger's work is unsettling because the human has lost control of the machine. That's the line we hold.
Agents draft; people decide. Every action is logged, every approval has a name on it, and a person can always override. Fusion, yes. Possession, never.