One-third instructing agents, one-third waiting, one-third fixing: the modern AI job
sahilypatel · x · 2026-11-10
A practitioner sums up his current job: one-third telling agents what to do, one-third waiting for agents, and one-third fixing what the agents did. The quip resonates widely as an honest portrait of AI-assisted work in 2025 — automation boosts throughput, but oversight and rework have become the dominant cost.
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