Why Working Agents, Not Coding Agents, Are AI's Biggest Market Opportunity
lxfater · x · 2026-09-15
Blogger lxfater cites the podcast 'Deep Evolution' (featuring Baidu DuMate product architect Li Jingqiu) to argue AI's biggest opportunity lies in Working Agents for office scenarios rather than Coding Agents: office workers outnumber programmers 25:1, developers judge products by cost rather than delivered value and pay reluctantly, while bosses and ordinary users happily pay for agents that deliver actual results.
Wider audience plus higher willingness to pay, he argues, turns product growth from hard mode to easy mode.
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