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Why Normal People Aren’t Using AI Agents (www.wired.com)
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[–] goosehorse@lemmy.world 38 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Don't these fart-huffing jackasses understand that I actually need to read my e-mails to plan physical meetings with other flesh-based entities?

It's difficult for me to fathom how someone could risk their work getting fucked up by non-deterministic software.

To me, it's not worth the risk or the hassle to set up and babysit a piece of software that might get shit wrong when I can just do it correctly in the first place.

[–] invertedspear@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 months ago

Other employees are so incompetent (you know how incompetent your co workers are) that agents are producing better work and making fewer mistakes than they would on their own. The fact is, for most people, the mistakes it makes are no different than people mistakes.