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per the forums at supermegabaseball.com

me: does the autobat follow the pitch at every ego level?

dev:

It helps you less and less as ego goes up, and the tolerances are tightened up significantly, so you will have to be more and more precise.

The intention is to guide you into the game, so at lower egos you can focus on getting the timing of the swings right, at higher ego, you gotta do it all yourself.

So yes, its effect becomes negligible eventually.