Turns out, managing bots is just as annoying as managing people
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If AI agents don’t reliably improve with tenure, they behave less like employees and more like brittle software that constantly needs reconfiguration. Before you scale “AI employees,” budget for ongoing supervision, evaluation, and prompt/flow maintenance the way you’d budget for SRE and QA, not headcount substitution.
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