 Salesforce laid off 4,000 people. They were replaced by AI agents. Marc Benioff confirmed: 4,000 positions in customer support have been cut — AI agents now handle requests faster and cheaper. This is not a forecast for the future. It happened right now. Trend of May 2026: — Salesforce: −4,000 people, AI agents in production — Oracle: −30,000 people, restructuring for AI — Snowflake: moving from chatbots to "acting" AI agents — Only 11% of companies have actually launched agents into production — the rest are catching up What does this mean for developers and startups? The labor market is restructuring. Demand for specialists who can build AI agents, not just write prompts, has skyrocketed. ASI Biont provides tools to create your own AI agents without a team of 10 people. One specialist — a whole staff of agents. *