What Part of a Job Should an AI Agent Replace?
Aaron Goldsmid says an agent should replace the worst part of a job, the chores that add no value and still have to get done, not the job itself. Taking a three-year strategy from an agent and treating it as final would be a terrible idea. The agent can help draft it. The work to hand over is small judgment: approve an ordinary expense, or allow a hotel that is 10 cents over the limit because a night in New York and a night in Lisbon are not the same price.
Getting someone paid, calculating tax, or filing a visa still follows the same steps it has for about 100 years. Gather the information, fill out the forms, submit them, and wait for the result. Easy automation already moved a file or matched an ad to a person. Agents unlock the next slice, a step that needs only a little judgment, such as a format that is slightly off or a path that could go left or right. Deel still keeps a human in the loop when the amount has to be right, including pay, a complicated medical leave, and a complicated termination. That person is there for expertise, not to move work down an assembly line. Every piece of software is less sticky than it was 12 months ago, so the process has to make sense even when the tool changes. A lot of the day is that little-judgment work, and much of it can go to an agent.
