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Why Normal People Aren’t Using AI Agents
www.wired.com/story/why-normal-people-arent-using-ai-agents/
WIREDWhy Normal People Aren’t Using AI AgentsThe tech industry is realizing it needs to build agents based on what regular consumers want, not just what its AI models can do.Replying to @FoxtrotDeltaTango@sh.itjust.works
I’ve seldom been described as a normal person, but in my job, I have to get things right or there are problems for real people. So whatever tools I use have to be reproducible in their results, transparent in how they give their answers, and verifiable. So that precludes LLMs, which are automated bullshit firehoses with opaque, constantly mutable workings.
Those are exactly the properties that should never apply to a system whose output actually matters.
Replying to @phutatorius@lemmy.zip
I use the AI agents to write software which is reproducible in its results, transparent in how it operates and verifiable…
Trust an LLM to switch on a light? No. Trust an LLM to write a diagnostic script and tell me what problems it notices in 3MB of log files, then write another script to patch the problem? Only if I actually understand the problem it finds and how the solution it creates is going to work.
They reduce some tasks that used to take weeks to a single day activity, they are NOT universally applicable.