Agents are taking your work

Good morning, AI enthusiasts!

This week we tackle what happens when software starts doing the parts of your job you never questioned. Agentic AI is shifting from novelty to necessity, and this might be the first time it actually changes how you work day to day.

Plus, you'll discover how to turn these agents into your own behind-the-scenes productivity team. If your workflow still depends on grit and caffeine, this issue might feel like a plot twist.

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Some ideas annoy people because they hit a nerve. Here’s one of them: the biggest productivity gains this decade won’t come from working harder. They’ll come from handing work to software that thinks for itself.

Agentic AI is already moving in that direction. Not hype. Not sci-fi. Just a quiet shift in how work gets done when no one is watching.

The pattern with these systems is clear. Once an agent can plan, decide, and take the next step without waiting for you, your entire relationship with “busy” changes. You begin to see which tasks were actually work and which were just friction.

That matters for marketers and operators because most of our day is friction.

And the truth is, an agent handles those things better than a human.

Not because it’s smarter. Because it never skips steps.

This is where the conversation gets interesting. Instead of drooling over features, ask a better question: what parts of your job should you stop doing altogether?

The answer usually sits in the repetitive, multi-step workflows you already dread.

Take marketing. A weekly performance review takes hours. You pull platform data. You flag what dipped. You draft testing ideas. You build a summary your team might read. An agent can run that cycle without asking for permission. Not because it’s creative. Because it’s obedient with stamina.

Or content. Most people start with a blank page. Agents start with everything. They read your transcripts, posts, research notes, analytics, and old landing pages. They build the outline, the angle, the raw draft. Your job shifts from writing to steering. And that shift is fast.

The same thing happens in product and operations.

You give an agent access to meeting notes.

Suddenly, the work you thought required “ownership” was just a sequence of predictable steps.

This raises a question everyone should sit with: if an agent can take 70 percent of your workflow, what do you want to do with the remaining 30? That’s the part no tool can answer for you.

The trick is starting small. Pick one annoying process. Write out the steps. Feed them into an agent and keep the human guardrails tight. Let the system stumble. Let it learn. Once it nails the workflow once, you save it and run it again next week. The compounding effect is real.

And here’s the twist. This isn’t about saving time. This is about shifting your attention.

Agents give you back the mental space that used to be taken up by a pile of recurring tasks. You think more. You scan the horizon instead of the inbox. You work on the part of your craft that still requires taste and judgment.

People talk about “10x workers,” but the math doesn't add up. The goal isn’t to produce more. The goal is to remove the parts of your job that never needed you in the first place.

That’s the promise of agentic AI.

Not automation.

Not shortcuts.

Just a chance to trade busywork for real work.

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