You have just hired a digital intern who lies.
Many leaders think they are winning because their agents are churning out content and data.
But they are actually drowning as they move from doing the work to managing the work.
I saw an example of an alt text agent that produced beautifully formatted content overnight.
It was entirely hallucinated.
The agent inserted product names that did not exist in the catalog, filling in the gaps with plausible guesses because it was not sure what the images showed.
AI is aggressively literal.
If you manage by visibility or presence, you will miss the failure.
An agent does not act distressed when it is wrong.
It produces garbage with absolute, professional confidence.
1. Define business outcomes instead of proxy metrics.
2. Implement automated quality gates.
3. Build a shared state so agents reference real data rather than guesses.
Are you building a system that works without you or a system that only works when you are watching?
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