David GerardNov 10

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.

Show threadJonathan Hendry

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People who were losing patience are like “ah, agents, now we’ll surely get what we were promised!” And then it takes a few months or a year for them to figure out, nope it still doesn’t work. By which time the AI grifters will have another silver bullet to pitch.

Nov 10 at 10:39amWeb
Show threadMateusz 🏳️‍🌈Nov 10
@jonhendry @davidgerard The real problem here are poor bosses. They’re not interested in work we do, they don’t understand problems we struggle with and they’re just happy to believe there’s a golden hammer that removes any responsibilities from them.
Show threadDragonBardNov 10
@aemstuz @jonhendry @davidgerard Ah, but the responsibility will be removed after the company goes bankrupt because the AI sent all the money to a 419 scammer.