"Everyone will be a manager" - what the world of work will look like with AI agents
AI agents are reshaping roles, empowering employees, and redefining leadership in the workplace.
The ground in the world of work is shaking. Last week, Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Meta, said that he will replace junior programmers with artificial intelligence as early as this year. He made the remarks on an episode of The Joe Rogan Experience podcast. A few weeks earlier, on another podcast, 20VC with Harry Stebbings, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff announced that the company would not hire new software engineers in 2025 due to the improvement in productivity thanks to the use of AI. He said that the company is now focusing on its flagship product in the field of artificial intelligence—Agentforce, a platform for creating artificial intelligence agents. Just to put it in perspective, a mid-level engineer at Meta in the U.S. earns an annual salary in the six figures, so the savings for the company could be significant, and the implications for the labor market are clear.
In October, Microsoft launched AI agents for the workplace, allowing employees and organizations to create customized agents that can perform tasks without writing code, using natural language. At the same time, Salesforce launched Agentforce, an AI agent designed for organizations, especially for sales, marketing, and commerce departments. Google also launched “Deep Research” a few weeks ago, which is essentially an AI agent that acts as a research assistant that investigates complex topics on the employee’s behalf and provides a detailed, easy-to-understand report. It creates a research plan that consists of several steps that can be edited or approved.