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Bob learned how to use the agent to do work, which is just as useful to society. I wrote a short script to tproxy my connection using an AI and it took less time than doing it myself. More importantly, knowing it took less time gave me the motivation to actually ask the AI to write it
Bob used the agent to do the work of a junior and it cost him the ability to learn how to do it himself as a senior in the future.
That's assuming agents can't do the work of a senior in the future. The future is famously hard to predict