If an AI Agent Still Needs a Human Babysitter, Is It Really Automation?
Few-Garlic2725 · reddit · 2026-11-07
The poster argues that many AI agents look useful until you realize someone has to babysit them: checking outputs, fixing mistakes, approving actions, handling edge cases, watching for hallucinations. Value therefore depends on the ratio of work removed vs. supervision created—if an agent just adds operational burden, the UI hardly matters. The open question: how do you measure an agent's supervision cost before building it?
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