Why AI disruption concentrates in software: look at business structure, not job tasks
jburnmurdoch · x · 2026-11-01
The fact that AI-driven change shows up mostly in software, rather than other AI-using jobs and sectors, suggests disruption risk should be assessed less as a function of individual job tasks and more by how a whole business or sector operates. Software output and revenue can expand independently of headcount in a way that's far less true for other knowledge work.
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