Define: "Botsitting" in Business
Multi-headcount capital waste
"Let the AI break the SDWAN routing table. Once it drops the executive VPN during a board meeting, they will stop forcing you to use it."
The practice of human employees actively monitoring and correcting the output of AI tools to ensure accuracy and compliance.
What does "Botsitting" actually mean?
"Doing your job, plus the job of the shiny new AI tool the executives bought to replace you, because it keeps suggesting 'allow all' rules for the perimeter firewall."
"We are implementing a botsitting rotation to ensure our AI-generated reports meet our quality standards."
"I spent three hours botsitting the new GenAI assistant before it could commit a Palo Alto policy that didn't expose our entire internal network to the Russian internet."
By The Chief Waste Officer
18 years in the corporate trenches quantifying waste so you don't have to.
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