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What we want is software that behaves predictably. Since LLMs don't do that, we don't want them or their "agents."
For fuck's sake.
To be clear, "normal" people are using LLMs like crazy. This I believe is specifically talking about is installed local agents. Boomers and non tech industry suits are using LLMs left and right and won't shut up about them.
lol it's true. My mom sends me screenshots of AI chats every fucking day.
99% nudify apps
I have agents force fed to me at work. I’ve already got my own honed workflows I’ve refined over the years; now, Outlook and Teams and Various agentic frameworks are spamming me with summaries of stuff I either already know or don’t need to know… except they still get it wrong constantly, so I can’t trust what they think I should prioritize (usually it’s work I’ve already assigned to others).
Claude Code agents are decent, but they need to create discrete work objects that can be properly reviewed, so act like junior coders.
The main issue I have with most agents today is that they try to replace MY work, making it more complicated and time consuming, instead of completing the work I can’t bother to do myself. And in order to do those things effectively, I have to loosen my privacy and security models to the point where they effectively don’t exist. Which I’d never do for another human, so why should I do it for an agent that’s more likely to catastrophically screw things up at record speed?
why
Uh, because its the future and if you don't you're not cool?
Not only do we not care about it, we actively hate it.
Are we considered "normal people" though?
Here on social media we get to ensure that we only associate with other "normal" people. By our definition of "normal."
And then we get shocked when we discover that large numbers of people out there are not, in fact, "normal." Often when an election happens.
I often wonder as well because being a news reader makes me assume others are also following the news more closely than myself. When I test this theory by talking to people around me, I learn that maybe I’m more alone than I thought.
At least with social media I get to follow the news with all of you, my fellow nerds