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The Atlantic explores the rise of AI agents and the post-chatbot era. Key points: Americans live in parallel AI universes - general public uses ChatGPT/Google AI while tech hobbyists use agentic bots. Claude Code and OpenAIs Codex can do work humans do on computers - collapsing months of work into weeks. Software engineering transformed: Microsoft 30% code is AI-generated, CTO expects 95% by decade end. Anthropic reports 90% of code is AI-generated. Tech executives predict AI will automate most white-collar tasks within 18 months. However, its unclear how easily agentic progress translates to other fields - programming is binary (works or doesnt), while other tasks like essay evaluation are messier.