{"id":1260,"date":"2026-03-25T04:28:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T04:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/2026\/03\/25\/everyones-preparing-for-ai-to-steal-their-job\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T11:19:59","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T11:19:59","slug":"everyones-preparing-for-ai-to-steal-their-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/2026\/03\/25\/everyones-preparing-for-ai-to-steal-their-job\/","title":{"rendered":"Everyone&#8217;s preparing for AI to steal their job."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone&#8217;s preparing for AI to steal their job.<\/p>\n<p>Nobody is preparing for what AI is actually doing.<\/p>\n<p>McKinsey today runs 20,000 AI agents alongside 40,000 humans.<\/p>\n<p>One year ago they had 3,000 agents.<\/p>\n<p>Their human headcount did not shrink.<\/p>\n<p>It grew.<\/p>\n<p>Every AI agent needs someone to direct it.<br \/>Someone to catch when it hallucinates.<br \/>Someone to own the outcome when it fails.<br \/>Someone to decide what it should do next.<\/p>\n<p>Washington Post tested AI on hundreds of real work assignments this year.<\/p>\n<p>It failed nearly half of them.<\/p>\n<p>The bottleneck is not the agent.<br \/>The bottleneck is the human who knows how to use it.<\/p>\n<p>Companies are now hiring roles that did not exist two years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Agent product managers.<br \/>AI output evaluators.<br \/>Human-in-the-loop validators.<\/p>\n<p>The founders I know who are winning right now are not the ones who replaced their teams with AI.<\/p>\n<p>They are the ones who built small sharp human teams that direct large fleets of agents.<\/p>\n<p>The fear is wrong.<br \/>The real shift is not AI replacing humans.<\/p>\n<p>It is the ratio of humans to output changing permanently.<\/p>\n<p>One person directing 20 agents can now produce what 20 people produced before.<\/p>\n<p>That is not a job loss story.<\/p>\n<p>That is the biggest leverage story in the history of business.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone&#8217;s preparing for AI to steal their job. Nobody is preparing for what AI is actually doing. McKinsey today runs&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linkedin-posts","wpcat-18-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1260"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1271,"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1260\/revisions\/1271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}