San Francisco · AI Agent · U.S. · The Guardian Technology
In the San Francisco tech scene, agents have quickly become a new status symbol
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But agents are also creating tension.
Key facts
- About 40% of large organizations used AI agents in some capacity between May 2025 and June 2026, up from 27% the year before, according to McKinsey’s State of AI Global Survey
- At Anything, there are 15 human employees and roughly 150 agents, a ratio that Amin believes will soon be the norm
- People are constrained by having two hands and 24 hours in a day,” said Haneen Azhar, Lindy’s senior growth marketing manager
- Now, that constraint has gone away, because your one laptop screen can be divided into 16 different agents that are running in parallel
Summary
On an average workday, Dhruv Amin chats with dozens of colleagues to get things done at his AI startup Anything. But none of these co-workers are people. “I think in a year, every company will have more AI co-workers than human co-workers,” he said. In the San Francisco tech scene, agents have quickly become a new status symbol, showing that a company can do more with less, several startup employees said. While startup techies such as Amin are some of the early adopters, corporate America may not be far behind.