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>Long story short, I think narrative of job loss is way overblown.

Long story short, I ate dinner so I think the narrative of people over the world being hungry is way overblown.

How many studies do we need showing that AI isn't causing massive job loss before you'll believe it? This isn't the first one showing these results.

I won't believe in it, because I have seen it happen in agency work.

What used to be contracts for translations or asset creations for CMS projects, is now handled by the AI tooling of CMS products.

The adoption of SaaS, iPaaS and serverless, meant delivery projects could be done with smaller teams.

Now with iPaaS adoption of agentic workflows, and AI tooling to transform those serverless actions into MCP tools, the team sizes have been further reduced.

Most agencies aren't winning enough projects to justify those that land on bench.

I think non-software creative work has indeed been completely decimated by AI usage, particularly on the small business end. But this has been going on for a while now, I think since the image generation models got good enough to write down text with hallucinating nordic runes.

why does massive job loss have to be due to AI?

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