So far from what I can gather, the concept of "AI employees" or "agents" are simply a series of prompts and functions daisy-chained to perform tasks. There's no

So far from what I can gather, the concept of "AI employees" or "agents" are simply a series of prompts and functions daisy-chained to perform tasks. There's not much fundamental difference between an "agent" and an "app", other than there being some AI models under the hood. You still need a human to drive the agent, they aren't off performing tasks without being instructed or configured to do so. The current paradigm very much complements human workers who are leads, generalists, managers etc and technical enough to know how to drive them. So I don't think these higher level jobs are impacted negatively as much immediately with the current tech, if anything they are slightly more productive (note this is Nov 2024, I'm not saying this can't change, but this is the current state). Will the entry-level jobs be impacted? Most likely they are already, anecdotally as a generalist I can perform a lot more tasks than I could a few years ago because of language models. I no longer need to hire junior developers to create prototypes and scripts, I can create them myself. Similarly, I don't need to hire copywriters to create documentation or marketing material. I've also started leveraging image generation models for basic things like landing pages, so I don't need photographers or stock image sites anymore for those tasks. I have meeting assistant "agents" taking notes and action items, I don't need an admin assistant at meetings. There is definitely a shift happening at this level, right now.