by March 10, 2026 As AI products have evolved from models behind the scenes to chat interfaces to agentic systems to agents coordinating other agents, the design question has begun to shift. It used to be about how people interact with AI. Now it's about where and how people fit in. The clearest example of this is in software development. In Anthropic's 2025 data , software developers made up 3% of U.S. workers but nearly 40% of all Claude conversations. A year later, their 2026 Measuring Agent Autonomy report showed software engineering accounting for roughly 50% of AI agent deployments. Whatever developers are doing with AI now, other domains are likely to follow suit. And what developers have been doing is watching their role abstract upward at a pace that's hard to overstate. First, humans wrote code. You typed, the computer did what you said. Then machines started suggesting. GitHub Copilot's early form was essentially AI behind the scenes, offering inline completions.…