I know quite a few people who have bought into agents 100%. Its wild to hear them talk about letting an agent run for days on their personal computer, grinding away on some task. The way they talk about it, you would think they were babysitting a child or something.
What do they use them for? I have played with it a little out of curiosity, even got an LLM running on my phone until it got stuck in an endless loop spewing nonsense. Not touched agents yet.
I haven’t really found much use for LLMs yet beyond rewording or summarising text and even that is rarely worth the effort of loading it up.
Its mostly used for building large software projects or doing online research into some topic. They will use the LLM to create an outline of the work to do, the let agents figure out how to to all those steps, and how to check if the answer is correct or not.
Looked up some suggested uses as first projects and they sound so boring and useless. Smart home stuff, no thanks. Manage personal finances and budgets, don’t need tools for that let alone AI powered ones. Email, I don’t want to use email in the first place.
i agree with you. The only people that seem to be excited about LLMs are the people that make them, junior developers who can’t make good software yet, and management who never cared about good software in the first place.
Good developers, and people who just need to use a computer do not care about LLMs or agents.
Who knows where it will all end. Probably somewhere not great for normal people, if I had to guess.
I know quite a few people who have bought into agents 100%. Its wild to hear them talk about letting an agent run for days on their personal computer, grinding away on some task. The way they talk about it, you would think they were babysitting a child or something.
What do they use them for? I have played with it a little out of curiosity, even got an LLM running on my phone until it got stuck in an endless loop spewing nonsense. Not touched agents yet.
I haven’t really found much use for LLMs yet beyond rewording or summarising text and even that is rarely worth the effort of loading it up.
Its mostly used for building large software projects or doing online research into some topic. They will use the LLM to create an outline of the work to do, the let agents figure out how to to all those steps, and how to check if the answer is correct or not.
Looked up some suggested uses as first projects and they sound so boring and useless. Smart home stuff, no thanks. Manage personal finances and budgets, don’t need tools for that let alone AI powered ones. Email, I don’t want to use email in the first place.
i agree with you. The only people that seem to be excited about LLMs are the people that make them, junior developers who can’t make good software yet, and management who never cared about good software in the first place.
Good developers, and people who just need to use a computer do not care about LLMs or agents.
Who knows where it will all end. Probably somewhere not great for normal people, if I had to guess.