AI won't take your job, but this definitely will
Published on: 2025-05-29 10:27:22
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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the stage: "Productivity inflation." (The crowd does not go wild.) 😩
Everyone is focused on AI taking jobs, not realizing the immediate threat is that "A players" can now do much more with just an AI subscription for $20.
I'm just going to come out and say it: The days of being average and just getting by are officially over. 😖
Once upon a time, a team was structured like this:
1x senior level
4x mid level
8x junior level
But that's rapidly shifting to something more like this:
1x senior level
4x mid level
AI agents
But here's the thing
AI hasn't taken the junior-level jobs directly. Instead, what's really happening is that mid-level employees have become dramatically more productive by eliminating mundane, repetitive, or tedious tasks. Thanks to AI, mid-level workers get 13 hours of productivity out of a standard 8-hour day. 😮
Technically, AI didn't take the job, as there is still a human in the loop, and AI, in mos
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