AI agents won’t replace good workers. They’ll expose who was just looking busy.

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Summary

The article argues that AI agents will automate the busywork that many office jobs rely on to appear productive, exposing workers who were merely looking busy rather than producing real value.

Half of what we call productivity at work is just moving info around: summarizing reports, chasing updates, filling trackers, making slides nobody reads. That’s the stuff that makes us look busy. AI agents are already taking over that boring layer—handling docs, summaries, follow-ups, and workflow stuff. The scary part? It just exposes which jobs were mostly busywork, while expectations keep climbing. So what AI agents are actually worth using for this kind of work? Not another chatbot, I mean something that actually helps get the boring stuff done.
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