Ex-McKinsey consultant: AI agents are upending consulting and banking apprenticeships
paigeinsf · x · 2026-09-15
A former McKinsey consultant argues AI agents are forcing a reckoning for consulting and banking: ChatGPT already eroded the premium on institutional knowledge, and agents can now build decks and Excel models — the core junior analyst skills. That pressures the apprenticeship model of billing for junior execution while juniors learn by doing.
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