“We didn't refill the position.”
If you are an employer, ask yourself an uncomfortable question.
Would you refill every vacated position one-to-one today?
Or would you first check:
Which tasks can be automated?
Which can AI prepare?
Which really still have to be done by a human?
If this discussion is already taking place in your company, you are not alone.
AI doesn't fire people.
It prevents their successors.
This is not a forecast.
It is happening now.
These numbers do not come from a study about the year 2035.
They are based on jobs for which companies are looking for people today.
“We didn't refill the position.”
Sounds harmless.
Sounds like staff turnover.
Sounds like cost optimisation.
Doesn't sound like job loss.
But that is exactly what it can be.
A person leaves their job.
Nobody is dismissed.
There is no headline.
No wave of layoffs.
No protests.
The position simply disappears.
The tasks are still there.
They are just done differently. For example:
“We don't need a new employee.
We have Claude now.”
Of course a Claude, ChatGPT or other AI subscription does not automatically replace a complete employee. But when AI takes over enough of a position's tasks, exactly that can turn into a business decision: the position is not refilled.
“AI will simply make us more productive.”
Maybe.
But productivity has a second side.
If ten employees have so far done a certain amount of work, and with AI the same work can be done by six, there are two options:
The company produces considerably more with ten people.
The company produces the same with six people.
Why do we almost always talk about option A?
Maybe the professions won't disappear first.
Maybe the positions will.
A company may still need:
Marketing.
Accounting.
Research.
Translations.
Customer communication.
Administration.
But maybe it no longer needs:
10 people.
But 7.
Then 5.
Then 3.
Automation doesn't have to wipe out a profession.
It is enough if it halves the headcount.
Restructure, don't cut
For employers the same list is an early indicator. It shows which roles in their own organisation are shifting right now — on jobs that competitors are advertising in exactly this way today.
Those who restructure early can bring people along: recut tasks, move responsibility, build skills before pressure arises. Those who wait are later left with cuts as the only tool.
Both are in the same list. The only difference is the point in time at which you look.
Applications via the original portal
agenticjobs is an analysis, not an application channel. The portal does not accept applications and does not store application documents.
Every listed job links back to the portal where it is advertised. The application runs there as usual.
Nothing changes for the employer: applications arrive the same way as before. When an ad expires there, it disappears here too — the list shows the current state, not an archive.
This is an art project. The jobs in it are real.
agenticjobs is not a job board. It is an art project by Eduard Ducho, built as a wake-up call. Every ad listed here is advertised today, by a real company, with the task profile it wrote itself. That is exactly what makes it uncomfortable.
What is real, and what is staged
The jobs, the assessments, the numbers
- The jobs. Every listed ad is actually advertised at the time it is shown, with the task profile the employer wrote. Nothing recreated, nothing invented.
- The assessment. A language model checks every job: how much of the described core tasks an AI agent could already do today. A score from 0 to 100 with one sentence of reasoning next to it. A machine's verdict on human work, readable and disputable.
- The figures. Jobs analysed, jobs listed, the sum of advertised annual salaries: all calculated from the current stock, traceable at /api/stats.
The form in which this appears
- The role of the portal. A job board that lists jobs for AI agents, with a live counter and an interface through which machines fetch the list themselves. It acts as if this state were already normal.
- It is not yet. But the gap is smaller than it feels, and it can be measured here — with your own occupation in the search field.
- One number is calculated, not measured: the curve of the last twelve months under the AI rate. Assessment only started in August 2026; there are no measured values before that. This is also stated under the chart itself.
I wrote a book about this development. Then I wanted to know whether I was exaggerating.
Writing about AI is easy. There are plenty of forecasts about the future. I was interested in a different question: can what we are talking about already be seen in the real labour market today?
That is why agenticjobs came into being. We did not just want to discuss what AI might do to our work someday. We wanted to take real jobs. Analyse their tasks. And make the results public.
The book asks the question. agenticjobs collects the evidence.
Interview mit einer KI — Eduard Ducho (in German)
Paperback · 183 pages · published 9 July 2025 · ISBN 978-3-200-10249-1 · 25,19 € · German
Maybe you will never be fired because of AI.
Maybe your successor will simply never be hired.
“We didn't refill the position.”