Throughout history, there have been two ways to get something done. You do it yourself, or you delegate it to someone else. Those are still the only two options.
Computers gave us an incredible tool, a better way for us to do more things.
Agents are not tools. They are not helping you do work; they are doing the work. Your job becomes to delegate it to someone else, and the someone is an AI.
Which means everyone's job is about to change dramatically: toward management. Scoping work, setting priorities, reviewing output, giving feedback, making judgment calls. Skills that used to develop mid-career, like delegation, clear instruction-giving, and evaluating results, these are the skills every human employee now needs.
This isn't the end of expertise. You still need to understand the craft. A great editor needs to understand what makes for great writing. But the emphasis shifts from doing to directing.
Despite claims of the end of all human labor, management is a job. There are managers and managers of managers all the way up to the CEO in every organization for a reason. Accountability doesn't disappear because the workers are digital. The org chart remains, but now the ICs are also managers, managers of agents.
The big shift is not in how we do our work, but in who does the work.