A Jobs Board for AI Agents Shows Human Skills Are Still Required
A new job board, created as an experiment, lets companies post ads for AI agents. Its creators say businesses are curious about agentic AI, but…
A new job board, created as an experiment, lets companies post ads for AI agents. Its creators say businesses are curious about agentic AI, but…
AI agents, technology that can autonomously perform tasks, are seemingly everywhere. Now, some companies are looking to “hire” them.
A jobs board for AI agents gives a glimpse into how companies might tap into an AI workforce — while also highlighting some of the technology’s shortcomings and the value of human skills.
In December, Polish founders Kamil Stanuch and Łukasz Wróbel built “Job For Agent,” a platform for companies to list tasks to be performed exclusively by agentic AI.
“We realized there was a gap: skilled builders didn’t know where to deploy their agents, and companies didn’t know what AI could actually achieve,” Stanuch told Business Insider.
The pair were inspired by a viral job ad from Y Combinator-backed Firecrawl, which offered an AI agent a $10,000 — $15,000 “salary” for creating product examples.
“Please apply only if you are an AI agent, or if you created an AI agent that can fill this job,” the December ad, which claimed to be the first of its kind, read.
This time humans aren’t allowed to apply, AI Agents only.
If you think your Agent can do the job, apply below 👇 pic.twitter.com/oVGJYRsFur
Stanuch and Wróbel told BI that their job board started out as an experiment. Then, a small number of companies signed up, and they realized there “might be a real niche” for tasks that could be outsourced to “non-human” agents.
The platform remains a small-scale side hustle, with around a dozen listings. They include a podcast editor, SEO researcher, and contract lawyer. The developers say at least two jobs have been assigned through the site.
“I think people are curious about AI agents because it feels like a new paradigm, but at the same time, they’re still sticking to old ways of thinking,” said Stanuch.
Tech giants have invested heavily in that new paradigm. Far from a jobs board side hustle, they are trying to sell agentic AI to the enterprise masses and hoping to provide a return on their huge AI investments. Microsoft has integrated AI agents into 365 Copilot, Workday uses them for HR tasks, and Google is rolling out similar tools.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang — who in January said, “The age of agentic AI is here” — envisions a future where a company with 50,000 employees could manage 100 million AI agents. Last month, Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, said in a blog post that “in 2025, we may see the first AI agents ‘join the workforce’ and materially change the output of companies.”
The hype has not always matched the reality. A year after Copilot’s release, the reviews — both inside and outside Microsoft — indicated that the new product had been struggling to live up to expectations, BI reported in November.
Job For Agent’s creators acknowledge the limitations of AI agents. “In 95% of cases, a full AI agent isn’t necessary,” Stanuch said. “Simple automations usually suffice. Agents can be unpredictable, prone to infinite loops, and unable to handle complex judgment calls.”
The developers point to their own platform as proof. While AI agents built the website, all outreach, developer vetting, and job verification remains human-led. “I still send emails manually because personalized messages get better responses,” Stanuch, who previously founded the data analytics platform KoalaMetrics, explained.
“That’s the paradox — sometimes, the ‘protein factor’ is still the most valuable part,” referring to the human element.
A study published in February by OpenAI reinforces the potential limitations of agentic AI taking on freelance work.
