Slang & Culture
Botsitting
A nickname for the time workers spend feeding AI context, monitoring its execution, and fixing its mistakes. It characterizes the shift from doing work to supervising the machines doing it, where the supervisor is often as busy as the worker used to be.
Origin
Coined by Glean’s Work AI Institute in its 2026 Work AI Index to describe the roughly 6.4 hours a week workers spend supervising AI systems.