'Every Company Has a Bob': The Colleague Who Just Relays Your Questions to an AI Agent
Yuchenj_UW · x · 2026-09-25
The author shares a friend's real workplace anecdote: a colleague named Bob, when asked anything, simply copies the question into an AI agent and relays the answer back verbatim.
'Every company has a Bob' — the observation that a class of knowledge workers now effectively serve as human AI interfaces, raising obvious questions about how long that role survives automation.
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