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Stop measuring agent output and start measuring your supervision overhead
◆ 75RelevanceOn a story from The New Stack5h ago
If your agents log triple the hours of humans, you are trading execution for a massive supervision bottleneck. You must evaluate agentic workflows by the total human time spent reviewing rather than just the agent's completion rate.
Takeaways
- Agents can log 3.1 workdays for every human workday they replace.
- Human supervision is the primary bottleneck in scaling agentic workflows.
- High agent volume does not automatically translate to faster product breakthroughs.
Read the original at thenewstack.io
AI agents are creating more work, not less — and OpenAI’s own numbers back it up
fmode.me/n/ai-agents-are-creating-more-work-not-less-and-openais-own-numbers-back-it-up
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