New Delhi, May 3 -- When you need to hire a person just to manage your artificial intelligence (AI), something fundamental has changed.

Not in the future. Not in theory. Right now.

I recently met a startup founder who told me-half-laughing, half-serious-that he was hiring an "agent manager."

"Prompts are all over the place," he said. "Tone is off. The output needs babysitting. I need someone to train and track our AI agents so the team can just get on with their work."

We both laughed. But later, I realised: this isn't absurd. It's inevitable.

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