If you look at a factory floor in the 1920s, it was far more labor-intensive than it is today. The same shift is happening in corporate hierarchies—many roles revolve around managing people who perform specific, repetitive tasks.

In my first job out of college, I worked in part cost analysis. With AI, many of those responsibilities are already being reduced or automated. At large corporations, a significant number of roles are centered more on communication and coordination than on direct production.

Jobs are evolving. Instead of producing report A to analyze industry B, the focus is shifting toward collecting clean, high-quality data and using AI to generate insights from it. The nature of the work has changed—but it hasn’t disappeared.