"Agents Coordinating Flesh Tubes for Coffee": The Paternalism Problem of AI-Managed Teams
sarahdrinkwater · x · 2026-11-07
sarahdrinkwater relays a friend's café observation of AI coordinating a human team: "something paternalistic, in a negative way, about agents coordinating to give silly flesh tubes their cup of coffee." She agrees and asks what these systems are for and how we'll live and work with them.
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