The Job Market Isn’t Broken — Human Operating Models Are

The steep job market isn’t going to improve unless operational efficiency is adopted internally.

The harsh truth is:

1. Robots may halucinate and make mistakes. But people aren’t flawless at all.

2. Agents work 24/7. People don’t.

3. Agents don’t cause toxic company culture.

4. LLMs won’t track down “other career aspirations”.

5. Assisted agents won’t leak data to 3rd parties you don’t want to (except the overlords that built them).

Unless humans own that gap and truly excel at orchestrating and managing agents and LLM tools at scale, this trend will continue. In 5 years from now, 80%+ of the workforce will be heavily equipped predominantly with agentic tools, delivering 5X+ of the value compared to 2020-2022.

US unemployment is growing


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Mario Peshev is a 5x CEO and operator, founder of DevriX and Growth Shuttle, global value creation advisor, angel investor, and author of “MBA Disrupted.”

His original background in engineering rode the wave of IT entrepreneurship in the last 25 years, from product and service entrepreneurship through acquiring and selling businesses, to investing in global startups like beehiiv, doola, the Stacked Marketer, Alcatraz, SeedBlink.

Peshev spent over 10,000 hours in consulting and training contracts for mid-market and enterprise organizations like VMware, SAP, Software AG, CERN, Saudi Aramco since 2006. His books and guides are referenced in over 50 universities in North America, Europe, and Asia.


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