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discussionr/AI_Agents · Oct 24, 2026

What task did your agent get stuck on that you ended up paying a person to do?

A candid thread asking where agents still fail badly enough that people pay humans instead — and what it cost. The emerging rule of thumb from the answers: pay for judgment, not labor; anything irreversible or where being wrong is expensive still earns a human fee, while merely tedious work keeps getting cheaper to automate.

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