AI Disruption in 2025: 70,000+ Tech Jobs Gone, But New Careers Emerging

2025 has already seen over 70K technology jobs displaced by AI adoption, as enterprises accelerate automation and push efficiency at scale.

While this has created uncertainty, it has also opened up enormous opportunities for professionals ready to skill up in AI agents, LLMs, and agentic systems the very technologies driving this shift.

💡 "The future belongs to those who don’t fear AI, but learn how to build with it. Agentic systems and LLM-first workflows will define the next decade of enterprise technology."

To help future-proof your career, here’s a curated AI Agent & LLM Career Stack spanning videos, repos, guides, research papers, courses, and newsletters. Dive into these resources to stay ahead.

📹 Videos

1. LLM Introduction
2. LLMs from Scratch
3. Agentic AI Overview (Stanford)
4. Building and Evaluating Agents
5. Building Effective Agents
6. Building Agents with MCP
7. Building an Agent from Scratch
8. Philo Agents

🗂️ Repositories

1. GenAI Agents
2. Microsoft’s AI Agents for Beginners
3. Prompt Engineering Guide
4. AI Agent Papers

🗺️ Guides

1. Google's Agent Whitepaper
2. Google's Agent Companion
3. Anthropic: Building Effective Agents
4. Claude Code Best Practices
5. OpenAI’s Practical Agent Guide

📜 Research Papers

1. ReAct
2. Generative Agents
3. Toolformer
4. Chain-of-Thought Prompting
5. Tree of Thoughts
6. Reflexion
7. RAG Survey

🧑🏫 Courses

1. Hugging Face’s Agent Course
2. MCP with Anthropic
3. Vector DBs with Pinecone
4. Embeddings to Apps
5. Agent Memory
6. RAG Apps Evaluation
7. Browser Agents
8. LLMOps
9. Evaluating AI Agents
10. Computer Use with Anthropic
11. Multi-Agent Use
12. Improving LLM Accuracy
13. Agent Design Patterns
14. Multi-Agent Systems

📩 Newsletters

1. Gradient Ascent
2. DecodingML by Paul
3. Deep Learning Focus by Cameron
4. NeoSage by Shivani Virdi
5. Jam with AI by Shirin & Shantanu
6. Data Hustle by Sai

AI isn’t just taking jobs,  it’s reshaping career paths. As leaders emphasize, “the key is not survival but reinvention.” The best way to future-proof yourself is to learn, experiment, and build with the very tools driving disruption.

– Aravind Raghunathan