AI agents may replace office work by automating the boring coordination layer
Few-Garlic2725 · reddit · 2026-07-25
The post argues that AI agents won’t replace humans because they are “geniuses,” but because a lot of knowledge work is already just tab switching, meeting summaries, dashboard updates, and repetitive status-checking.
Its core question is whether any part of modern office work still truly requires human judgment, once the coordination layer is automated.
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