Jan. 25 at 3:53 PM
This morning spent time going through job postings across a range of vibe coding and agentic-native platforms like Anthropic and Replit, among others.
I wanted to pressure test something simple…
If these companies are agentic-native and can theoretically build anything from scratch, from payroll to CRM to internal tools, are they using other software vendors, and are they still hiring humans for roles that AI is “supposed” to replace?
So I pulled job postings from Replit, Anthropic, and others and read them line by line.
Here’s some reflection:
First, they are absolutely hiring. And not cautiously. So that’s one.
Second, some software names kept showing up in the requirements:
• Salesforce
• Workday
• NetSuite
• SAP
• Oracle
• Zendesk
• Intercom
• Greenhouse (
$YOU partner)
• Figma
• Stripe
• Anaplan and Pigment
That’s interesting.
If any companies should be building their own internal stacks earlier rather than later, you’d think it would be these. Yet the incumbents are still deeply embedded.
This can change, we know this, but for now this contradicts the idea that companies can EASILY recreate a high performant, 99.99999% reliabile, fully data sovereign platform.
Another thing that stood out is that many of these roles did not exist 5 or 6 years ago.
AI engineers at scale.
AI infrastructure roles.
Prompt and interaction designers.
Applied AI and automation roles that sit between systems rather than replacing them.
These are not replacement jobs that may get nervous about, they are new surface area created by AI.
And then there’s humans.
Sales, go to market, brand, copy, content, design.
AI helps here, a lot. But even the most AI-native companies are still hiring humans to own these functions, oversee them, and in many cases build teams around them.
So to be clear, we’re believers in AI.
AI is transforming everything. Every company will use an LLM across its ecosystem.
But jobs are changing, not disappearing wholesale. People still matter. And today’s tech stack still largely sits with incumbents.
Where AI is clearly winning is in creating new workflows, expanding what’s possible I my opinion, and replacing narrow single input, single output software that had limited flexibility. Think forms.
The idea that everything gets rebuilt from scratch immediately just does not match reality yet.
I’d say that even the companies building the future are still operating inside the present.
What you got on that?
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