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Knowledge work is under attack.
Not slowly. Right now.
Big tech and governments have decided AI is the future. They are spending trillions on data centers, infrastructure, and the systems that run them.
Maryland just posted a 30% spike in layoffs. Federal contracting is contracting. The DC corridor, one of the most credentialed workforces in the country, is entering an exposure zone that most people have not yet named.
Most people look at that spending and think: That is not my world.
It is. Those decisions have downstream impacts on every job.
Without acting now, 12 months from now looks fundamentally different.
I want to be honest with you about something.
I was AI native. Now I am an agentic native. I start my day in CoWork. It is my command center. I use AI as an operating system, not like software I open when I need it.
That shift changed everything about how I work and what I can produce.
That shift did not happen by accident. I watched what AI was doing to knowledge work and decided to get ahead of it rather than react to it.
Here is what being an agentic native actually gives you. Your output is no longer tied to your hours. Your thinking becomes a system that works without you.
You move from replaceable to irreplaceable. Not because you work harder. Because you built off assets nobody else has, your thinking.
I spend a lot of time in places where people are asking questions about the impacts of LLMs on their work and income.
They are asking: my federal contract just got cut, what do I do?
They are asking: Is my job safe, or am I watching it disappear in slow motion?
They are asking: how do we start learning how to use AI?
Those are the right questions. But most of the answers they are getting are wrong. Update your resume. Learn a new tool. Network harder.
The real answer is different. Stop competing as a worker. Start building thinking assets.
Agentic native is not a job title. It is an operating approach. It means you build Digital Employees that handle the repeatable output, the reports, the research, the intake, the follow-up, while you own the thinking behind it.
You stop being the one who does the work. You become the one who orchestrates a digital employee to execute work.
That is the only position AI cannot fill.
NOT SURE WHERE TO START?
Open Claude and type this:
"Based on what you know about me and my work, how would you recommend I start shifting to being an agentic native so I can become irreplaceable as AI starts eating jobs?"
Let it respond. Then have the conversation. You will walk away with a starting point tailored to your role, workflow, and current skill level. That one conversation could be the most valuable 20 minutes you spend this week.
That is what agentic native looks like in practice. You use the tool to think with you, not just for you. You treat it like a thought partner, not a search engine.
The economics matter here, too.
Agentic native workers do not negotiate on hourly rates. They negotiate on outcomes. Because output is not tied to their calendar, they can price based on results.
That is a different conversation with a different ceiling. The shift from time-based to results-based only happens after you systematize the work.
Everything before that is rate negotiation in a market that is driving down the price of knowledge.
This is not a productivity upgrade.
It is a different relationship with the work you do.
I made the shift from AI-native to agentic-native. The people who make it now will be on the right side of what is coming.
The ones who wait will be at a disadvantage in a market that has already moved.
Displacement is here. The question is which side of it you are building from.
Make the shift now.
Want help becoming an Agentic Native? Join THINK School.
If you’d like to see what agentic native work looks like, I am teaching a live class inside THINK School on February 26th from 11:30 am to 12:30 PM ET on AI Proposal Generation using Claude CoWork. You will watch the system work in real time, not a slide deck, not a recording. If you can’t make the class, watch the recording.
Marvin