2030

Layoffs continue, dictated by the mathematics of business. Let's rather focus on the now 20,000 AI contractors. Their "jobs" didn't exist before AI, and yet they make 100k - 1M ARR deploying niche AI agents for others.

They seem to be acclimating the fastest, and you can feel the ground start to rumble as more people joined them.

After much trial and error, the efficient org emerged: external expert + internal decision maker + agents in between.

When forbes finally covered "amorphous careers in the post-ai world", highschoolers were already aspiring to becoming the expert at a hyper-niche.