Which Jobs Can Be Replaced Today: Fryderyk Wiatrowski and Peter Albert

Summary

• Fryderyk Wiatrowski and Peter Albert (Zal Labs) argue agents should embed in workflows like onboarded employees — receive a vision and act independently, not be prompted one-off.
• Distinguishes reactive jobs (customer support: incoming email triggers well-defined steps) from proactive jobs (founder/strategy); claims reactive jobs go first, but every proactive job has a reactive layer to automate.
• Architecture: build a trigger aggregator (Slack messages, emails, phone calls, Linear issues, market movements) that agents subscribe to with rule sets; demos Jayce auto-scheduling investor meetings via email.
• Browsers as universal action layer — they generalize better than APIs which are often limited/poorly implemented.
• Peter Albert (ex-Meta Llama 2) advises a stepped path from prompting → cognitive architectures → fine-tuning → RL, since iteration speed degrades at each step; tips: rewrite prompts with the LLM itself, use XML tags (Anthropic-style), match model's training distribution (JSON/Markdown over custom formats).