The more time I spend using agent tools the less I worry about knowledge worker job loss.
It takes a skilled knowledge worker to use these things.
It takes a skilled knowledge worker to use these things.
And worse, these are the tasks that help the junior people eventually grow into the skilled knowledge workers required to operate models, so there's a pipeline problem too.
I'm already seeing tech execs/hiring managers getting very frustrated at the lack of new-senior-engineers to hire. The market will correct for this in time.
The demand for senior+ engineers has remained steadier through this downturn from my anecdotal observations, with new grads being by far the most negatively affected, but even that seems to both be shifting from talking to people a handful of years younger than me + CS enrollment has already precipitously declined [2] as the narrative that programming is dead because of AI has spread rapidly.
All that leads me to think it's going to be a junk-show over the next decade for people trying to hire as the pipeline was destroyed.
1: https://www.citadelsecurities.com/news-and-insights/2026-glo... 2: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/04/13/compute...