So this is an automated foreman for the customer's own employees, like a call center controller? Or does HumanLayer provide the human labor, like Mechanical Turk?

The API contains a "human_as_tool" function. That's so like Marshall Brain's "Manna".

"Machines should think. People should work." Less of a joke every day.

I'm not sure "automated foreman for employees" is right - I always thought about it more like "a human can now manage 10-15 AI 'interns'" and review their work without having to do everything by hand - the AI still serves the human, and "human_as_tool" is a way for AI to ask for help/guidance.

> "Machines should think. People should work." Less of a joke every day.

yes. I agree. a little weird. I forget where I heard this but the other version is "we should get ai/robots to cook and do laundry so we can spend more time writing and making art...feels like we ended up the other way around"