3d • General
What existing industries are deploying agents at the highest percentages?
Anthropic just published research on where AI agents are actually being used.
They analyzed over 1 million real-world agent actions. Here's the breakdown:
• Software engineering: 49.7%
• Back-office automation: 9.1%
• Marketing and copywriting: 4.4%
• Sales and CRM: 4.3%
• Finance and accounting: 4.0%
• Everything else: under 4% each
Half of all AI agent activity is writing, reviewing, and debugging code and the rest is scattered across dozens of industries - each one barely getting started.
What this tells you:
….we're still in the very early stages.
Agents are proving themselves in one domain first, and the playbook is slowly spreading everywhere else.
The question isn't whether each specific industry gets disrupted. It’s WHEN it gets disrupted (and whether you'll be the one doing the disrupting!)
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What existing industries are deploying agents at the highest percentages?
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