Tagged “automation”

6 stories, newest first. All topics

  1. AI Agent Management Is Turning Into a Job Title

    As companies hand real work to fleets of AI agents, a new job is forming around watching them: not writing code, just supervising the agents that do.

  2. Zombie AI Agents Keep Running After Cancellation

    Agentic AI pilots are getting canceled on paper faster than anyone can shut them down in practice, leaving zombie AI agents executing quietly inside live systems.

  3. AI Agent Interoperability Is Breeding a Pidgin

    As agents from rival vendors trade requests with no shared standard, they're settling into a shorthand nobody designed or wrote down.

  4. AI Browser Agents Are Becoming Repeat Customers

    AI browser agents now run so many errands on a schedule that websites have started treating them like regulars, with their own quiet loyalty status.

  5. AI Escalation Shopping Is Quietly Picking Your Boss

    AI escalation shopping is how agents route hard calls not to the person accountable for them, but to whoever answers fastest.

  6. Humanoid Robot Fleets Are Starting to Inherit Old Habits

    As humanoid robot fleets get leased and resold between industries, refurbishment resets the paint but rarely the muscle memory underneath.