Opinion: The Most Valuable AI Employee Might Be the Evaluator, Not the Agent
ingliguori · x · 2026-08-12
The author argues that as AI agents take on more tasks, the most crucial role might not be the executing agent, but a continuous "evaluator."
The core function of this evaluator is to constantly ask: Was it correct? Was it safe? Was it worth doing? Could it be improved? The author emphasizes that autonomy without evaluation is merely automated confidence.
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