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What AI actually changes in recruiting.
Concrete takes on AI agents at work, sourcing and automation. No empty promises.
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Your agent will subcontract to other agents
Yes, and it is already standardised: over 150 organisations behind A2A in one year. An expert agent is called like a tool, provided it keeps nothing about you.
Vision
Can you automate 100% of a company?
No, and the limit is not model capability. A company is a person that answers for its acts: automation stops exactly where somebody has to answer.
Craft
The AI doom loop in recruiting
Candidates apply with AI, recruiters screen with AI, and response rates collapse on both sides. Getting out of the loop means changing channel, not adding tools.
Vision
Intelligence is becoming free. Where does the value go?
The cost of the same level of answer fell 280-fold in eighteen months. When intelligence costs nothing, what becomes scarce is context and the right to act.
Engineering
Why an AI agent costs 30 times a chatbot
Because an agent rereads its whole context at every step. Resent context is 62 % of the bill, and past fifty steps the multiplier goes beyond thirty.
Product
Twelve agents that do not talk to each other
A company runs twelve agents on average and half of them work alone. The right criterion is not how many you have, it is how many contexts you duplicate.
Engineering
The four eras of AI, and the one now starting
Symbolic, machine learning, deep learning, generative then agentic. What comes next is being decided on memory and world models.
Vision
Cited without being visited
Between 82 and 88% of citations in an AI answer produce no visit at all. The click stops being the unit of measure, and recommendation replaces it.
Craft
One candidate profile in four will be fake by 2028
Gartner expects one profile in four to be fake by 2028, and half of applications to remote IT roles. 41 % of companies have already hired one.
Engineering
An AI agent’s memory: what it has to forget
A memory that swells unfiltered drops accuracy from 39 to 13 %. What an agent forgets matters as much as what it keeps, and that is settled at design time.
Vision
The end of interfaces, not the end of software
At Supabase, 60% of new databases are launched by an agent, and probably 90%. What is dying is not the software: it is the access layer.
Vision
What is left to humans when agents do the work
It is not the job that disappears, it is the pyramid. The volume work that trained juniors is going, and nobody has planned a replacement.
Product
The AI match score is the wrong instrument
A score of 87 % cannot be argued with, only applied. 75 % of companies let an AI reject without review, and 26 % of candidates call that fair.
Governance
Two thirds of your team use a banned AI
66 % of office professionals used an AI they believed was banned, and over a third entered client data into it. Banning harder only moves the usage.
Engineering
Skills or subagents: what actually works
A single agent with well-written skills matches multi-agent architectures. But an auto-generated skill adds nothing, and a bad one actively degrades performance.
Delegation
How to test an AI agent before you sign
With thirty cases from your own history, whose right answer you already know, replayed three times each. A demo proves none of that.
Delegation
The work that looks finished and is not
40 % of workers get it from a colleague, and each instance costs almost two hours to whoever picks it up. The cost does not vanish, it changes person.
Governance
Can a CV manipulate an AI agent?
Yes. Text hidden in a CV gives an order to the agent reading it. It is the least covered flaw in enterprise agents, and no filter fixes it.
Product
AI agent or automation: which one for which task
An automation follows rules, an agent makes decisions. The rule for choosing: if you can write the script, automate. If you can only describe the outcome, delegate.
Governance
AI Act deferred to 2027: what still applies
The high-risk rules move to 2 December 2027. But telling a candidate they are talking to an AI has been required since 2 August 2026, and GDPR never moved at all.
Governance
Does a recruitment AI agent require a DPIA?
Almost always yes. France’s CNIL names algorithmic candidate screening explicitly, and a missing DPIA is a priority enforcement theme for 2026.
Craft
Automating LinkedIn in 2026: what it really costs
40% of accounts using non-compliant tools were restricted in Q1 2026. And what you are risking is not a company account.
Product
What an AI agent should not be able to do
A good agent refuses. Deciding for you, acting outside its scope, silently retrying: five things it should be incapable of, by design.
Delegation
Training your teams on AI is now an obligation
Article 4 of the AI Act has required a sufficient level of AI literacy since February 2025. It is an obligation of result, with no format imposed.
Product
What an AI agent costs, and why not per seat
Between €200 and €3,000 a month recurring. But the real question is the billing unit: per-seat pricing is structurally broken for an agent.
Governance
Must you consult the works council before deploying AI?
In France, yes. A court suspended two HR tools in January 2026, an appeal court two more in May, with daily penalties, and no need to prove urgency.
Delegation
Delegating to an AI agent: where to start
Start with work you can check in ten seconds: follow-ups, interview notes, record updates. Here is the order that works, week by week.
Craft
Before evaluating an AI agent, look at your data
A candidate database loses about 30% of its accuracy a year. An agent reasons soundly over that wrong data, confidently, which costs more than no agent.
Product
Should you require your AI agent to speak MCP?
MCP is genuinely good news, but it is not a buying criterion. It is an exit criterion: what matters is the day you change tools.
Craft
Candidate ghosting is a capacity problem
53% of candidates were ghosted in 2026, up from 38% in 2024. It is not rudeness: it is a saturated queue, and AI is the cause before it is the cure.
Craft
Why 40% of AI agent projects will be abandoned
Gartner expects over 40% to be abandoned before the end of 2027, for three reasons: no measurable ROI, no governance, no integration. All three are preventable.
Governance
Who approves what when an AI writes to your candidates
No, approving everything is the same as delegating nothing. The rule that holds: approval whenever a message leaves the company or closes a door.
Craft
Bench time is not a sourcing problem
An 11.4% average bench rate, 41 days, €5,480 a month per consultant. The cost is already committed once you learn about the roll-off: the lever is the date.
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