Summary
Joak Van der Poort said Remote pushed AI early, requiring every employee to complete an AI course and reporting engineering productivity rose about 500% between mid-last year and this year. He argued agents can automate HR and payroll bureaucracy, but compliance answers need grounding, references, human escalation, and iterative guardrails; AI hiring may scale an already flawed, impersonal process.
Key Topics
5 key topics from Job van der Voort and Rowland Manthorpe at HumanX Amsterdam 2026. Thicker branches were mentioned more often in the talk.
Hiring, Firing & Reskilling with Agents
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Key Takeaways
- Require every function to test where AI improves output.
- Ground compliance answers in source law and show references.
- Escalate low-confidence AI conversations to humans early.
- Shut off unsafe answer areas before relaunching with stronger guardrails.
- Benchmark multiple models before routing production tasks.
“I think we're just making it flawed at scale.”
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