Delegating your work to AI agents: who owns oversight when knowledge gaps widen?
dhadfieldmenell · x · 2026-08-19
The original post imagined handing all project write-ups to an AI tool like Deft so it "explains everything better than I ever could." Reposter thkostolansky pushed back: the principal expects the agent to fill gaps in their own knowledge while reaping rewards from operating in uncharted space—with proper oversight and ownership this might seem fine at first glance, but will such oversight actually exist?
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