Agency AI Exodus: The 'Replace-and-Reskill' Automation Agent

A 30M eCom industry veteran describes a career spanning web development, SEO and agency operations, and observes rapid AI adoption that has reduced staff and automated many tasks; examples include SEO teams shrinking from 25 to 4 writers and dev teams being replaced with LATAM developers who rely on ChatGPT, plus AI tools generating websites and upsell code, leading to uncertainty about career stability and thoughts of pivoting to project management certification or a different industry.