"Every agent needs a human. The further away an agent is from a human who's doing it, the worse it does.
Rohan Paul Twitter · Rohan Paul (@rohanpaul_ai) · 2026-05-22
Every CEO Dan Shipper argues that AI agents perform worse the further they operate from direct human oversight, and that AI's growing capacity for expert-level work paradoxically increases rather than reduces demand for human experts.
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Topics: ai-agentshuman-ai-collaborationfuture-of-work
Claims
- AI agents perform worse as the distance between them and a supervising human increases.
- Close human involvement is a prerequisite for AI agents to achieve their best performance.
- AI's ability to perform expert-level work increases demand for human experts rather than displacing them.
- Human expertise becomes more valuable, not less, as AI takes on expert tasks.
Key quotes
Every agent needs a human. The further away an agent is from a human who's doing it, the worse it does.
Even though AI can do expert human work, it actually increases the demand for human experts.