The key weakness in AI agents is that they're a lie. They don't work. They just don't fuckin' work. You can't set a hallucination engine to work doing tasks. It's pants on head stupid. The hype pretends this isn't the case and hypothesises a fabulous future where they work *at all*. This is a lie.

A useful model for "AI agents" is that they're the current excuse meme for AI. They're not a thing that works at all, now or in the fabulous future. But they're *such* good material for hypecrafting. No sausage at all, but *my god* that sizzle.

@davidgerard

But say this to the believers and they respond "It simply isn't credible to criticize this technology without acknowledging that it is useful to many people"...

As if they get to demand that we believe the lie when we criticize the lie.

The only thing we gotta acknowledge is that many people are utter tools who want to be lied to.