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by bsoles 46 days ago
Agent skills are ways of turning over our means of (software) production to our employers, while making ourselves obsolete at the same time. In the recent past, a (software) professional had to be continuously employed by their employer to maintain access to their professional skills. By transferring our skills into AI agent skills, we are basically giving away that privilege. In the near future, our employers might feel they don't need our skills anymore because it has already been captured by the AI agents. Somebody with a better grasp of economic history should be able to explain this using the analogy of what happened during industrial revolution and how the workers got screwed over.