1 week ago
Mon Jul 28, 2025 11:39am PST
Ask HN: What are the BIGGEST Problems you'd face with a full-AI employee?
Imagine an AI agent that’s indistinguishable from a remote worker, something like Devin but for anything and whose medium of contact are email, Slack, phone calls, etc.

What would your main pain points and concerns be? I’ve come up with the following list but can’t think of any more problems:

Dream outcome (Donsir Mechas) - Create anything big & of high quality and best practices with a prompt. - Be like God: you ask for something, immediately get the full & perfect response. - 1,000 employees in your pocket. - People will look at you and say, how does he go so fast? How does he get that much done? - Like Devin, but for everything

Problems - Create an account - I will have to copy-paste stuff into my project (code) - I will have to run tests myself - I’ll have to add refinements myself - I’ll have to find bugs and fix them myself - I can’t trust what ai makes, it’s just slop - I will have to use something like Cursor to review and accept/reject the code - I will have to read and internalize what the AI did and how it links with the rest of the code - I will have to give the same large instructions every time in every prompt - I will have to learn about the platform - I’ll have to manage secrets and api keys, and know which of them to give the agent

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