If it's an employee, which I doubt but ok, it's an employee you constantly have to probe, talk to, give instructions to, so, not a really good employee.
It might, in fact, be that you are more successful with your approach. I have no idea. Congrats if so.
But I think it's odd for you to now say it doesn't matter whether or not his AI token use is leading to success or not. I personally think it's actually really important to learn whether/when this approach is smart.
But you could use tons of autonomous agents for all kinds of things. Probably shouldn't, but you can.