AI strategist cuts back agents after botsitting outweighs automation gains

Business Insider reports that AI strategist Sol Rashidi cut back roughly half of her AI agents after finding that supervising them required too much context correction and oversight. The story is anecdotal but useful because it captures a recurring operational failure mode: agents that look autonomous in demos can create new managerial work in production. It also points to why companies are hiring humans back into workflows that were supposed to be fully automated.

Key details: Sol Rashidi said she fired half her AI agents after becoming a botsitter, The complaint was that constant correction consumed time better spent elsewhere, The article frames agent oversight as a practical adoption cost.

Why it matters: Agent adoption will be judged by net workflow load, and botsitting is a useful label for when automation quietly shifts work rather than removing it.