Asking for real perspectives: has your workplace gone all in on AI agents?

My dad works at an energy company, and they recently started bringing in AI agents after a partner company introduced them to Claude. They had programmers and similar roles before, but he says those positions have since been laid off. From what he tells me, the results have been pretty good so far. Things move faster because nobody has to go through the traditional process of manually reviewing and approving everything anymore. Projects go straight to the AI, and the human’s job is basically to pick from the options the agents produce. He also mentioned they’re spending a lot of budget on tokens for the whole department. I’m curious how common this is. Is your company doing something similar? And do you think the savings hold up long term once you factor in token costs and fewer people who understand the systems?