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It Turns Out, AI Agents Suck At Replacing White-Collar Workers

A new study says AI gets a failing grade, and it's not a mystery as to why

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Joe Procopio
Feb 17, 2026
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Two years ago, my guy Satya at Microsoft said AI would replace knowledge workers. Then a year later, my dude Dario over at Anthropic said all code would be AI generated by… this month.

I’m not news-flashing you when I say that neither or those predictions have come true yet. In fact, there’s a new study from training data company Mercor that shows that “…

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