I Hired an AI Employee: A Real-World Test
thisdudelikesAI · x · 2026-07-17
The author shares their experience of "hiring an AI employee" and reviewing its actual performance after a two-week trial.
Integrated into Slack just to see if it would stumble, the AI indeed embarrassed the creator, but not in the expected way. In one specific instance, when a movie shoot date was modified in a thread on Tuesday, the AI actively intervened in related communications and made a tangible impact. Overall, it's a field report on how an AI worker performs in daily collaboration software.
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