AI agents are starting to look more like employees than software
Bladerunner_7_ · reddit · 2026-07-27
The author argues that AI agents are starting to look less like software and more like employees.
- The first questions about an employee are reliability, accountability, and teamwork — not raw intelligence.
- The same shift is happening for agents: organizations care more about behavior in production than benchmark scores.
- As teams deploy dozens of agents, the central issues become governance, deployment, permissions, observability, and evaluation.
- The post suggests a new operational layer is emerging around “agent operations.”
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