AI may replace workflows long before it replaces jobs
SuspiciousAir6358 · reddit · 2026-09-02
The author offers an alternative to the 'AI steals jobs' narrative: AI will likely replace workflows long before it replaces roles.
The scenario: a small five-person team gradually adopts AI for research, data entry, follow-ups, reporting and emailing repetitive tasks — then one day the company realizes the same output no longer needs the same headcount.
A subtler displacement path: not AI replacing people, but people using AI making equal output require fewer people. He ends by asking readers which single task at their workplace could be fully done by AI.
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