How sheet metal workers are reshaped as AGI capability advances.

Only about 15% of Sheet Metal Workers is information work today — the rest is physical, and moves slowly. The exposure is concentrated in the back office: the books, the paperwork, the scheduling, the marketing.
Why: Despite a high count of Segment 43 IT/software tools used for CAD/CAM layout (20 tools), the core value-producing work of Sheet Metal Workers is predominantly hands-on. Top Work Context scores heavily reflect physical labor, including wearing protective equipment (4.95), spending time standing (4.84), using hands to handle objects (4.57), and exposure to contaminants and minor burns. Combined with Work Activities like inspecting structures (4.44) and operating mechanized equipment (4.19), the occupation is deeply physical.
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Read as an executable program — the work decomposed into Code, Generative, Agentic, and Human.
The work of Sheet Metal Workers engages 41 activities — the executable steps that, decomposed, reveal what becomes Code, what stays Human.
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Sheet Metal Workers involves 41 work activities — the generalized motions beneath the role, each scored against the AI-deliverability frontier.
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Which of this work becomes digital labor — performed under typed authority, promoted to autonomy on track record.
Sheet Metal Workers performs 19 tasks on the graph — the atomic work units that become the job description for a digital employee, promoted to autonomy on track record.
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Sheet Metal Workers is typically employed by 94 company types — the demand side that decides which of this role's tasks get handed to agents, and on what authority.
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Sheet Metal Workers is employed across 73 settings — the places where this role's work is done, and where digital employees first sit beside the humans.
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The software here going agent-consumable — where the API, not the UI, becomes the way the work gets done.
Sheet Metal Workers uses 164 tools today. As each gains an agent-consumable surface (API / MCP / SDK), the human UI stops being the only way in — and the work routes straight to an agent.
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Sheet Metal Workers relies on 25 products. The headless dimension of each — whether an agent can call it without a screen — is what decides how much of this work goes hands-free.
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The software Sheet Metal Workers reaches for already exposes 12 agent-callable actions (via uses → exposedBy) — typed surfaces an agent invokes directly, no human screen in the loop. The work routes to the API, not the UI.
Node-intrinsic problems read straight off the graph (exposesProblem) — the evergreen wedges a builder could take into this space.
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