New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: When do we expose "Humans as Tools" so LLM agents can call us on demand?
Ask HN: When do we expose "Humans as Tools" so LLM agents can call us on demand? 3 by vedmakk | 0 comments on Hacker News. Serious question. We're building agentic LLM systems that can plan, reason, and call tools via MCP. Today those tools are APIs. But many real-world tasks still require humans. So… why not expose humans as tools? Imagine TaskRabbit or Fiverr running MCP servers where an LLM agent can: - Call a human for judgment, creativity, or physical actions - Pass structured inputs - Receive structured outputs back into its loop At that point, humans become just another dependency in an agent's toolchain. Though slower, more expensive, but occasionally necessary. Yes, this sounds dystopian. Yes, it treats humans as "servants for AI." Thats kind of the point. It already happens manually... this just formalizes the interface. Questions I'm genuinely curious about: - Is this inevitable once agents become default software actors? (As of basically n...