Crypto ran the agent-displaces-analyst experiment ahead of this survey — Virtuals and ai16z launched frameworks that automate research, trading signals, and community mod work at the exact seniority tier the survey flags as most exposed. The 81K respondents skew toward Claude power users, the cohort using agents to consolidate roles rather than hire for them. Watch Bittensor subnet yields and Akash compute demand — tokenized labor markets price displacement faster than HR departments notice.

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