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 that reminds me... I have to do my company's mandatory agentic AI training course this week... wish me luck 🤮
@davidgerard having to sit through unbelievably painful "podcast" style audio - which are obviously generated voices speaking generated text. Horrible word-salad cringefest so far. (Thumbs down in my review each time.) When a video with a human comes along it is REMARKABLE how I can actually listen and understand the point very easily compared to the bland incessant garbage the "podcast" puts out...