AI Agents in the Economy: How Autonomous Software Is Reshaping Markets, Labor, and Productivity in 2026
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TL;DR: In 2026, AI agents have crossed from demo to deployment — but unevenly. Corporate AI investment more than doubled in 2025, enterprises running agentic AI report an average 171% ROI, and roughly 31% of enterprises have at least one agent in live production. Yet agent-specific deployment insid…
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- 2026-08-31 04:02 · DEV Community — AI
AI Agents in the Economy: How Autonomous Software Is Reshaping Markets, Labor, and Productivity in 2026