OpenAI, Meta, Google, and others are positioning AI agents as personal assistants that can perform a range of tasks online. But the web is becoming increasingly unfriendly toward agents, undermining their usefulness.
OpenAI, Meta, Google, and others are positioning AI agents as personal assistants that can perform a range of tasks online. But the web is becoming increasingly unfriendly toward agents, undermining their usefulness.
I’m still enjoying it, but in a different way now. I don’t mind using agents to write code. I kinda like it honestly. I just shifted my curiosity to the harness. Putting together the best workflow I can to get the least amount of garbage. Diving in when it inevitably turns to garbage, and refactoring.
Then again, I spent a long time working with contractors that slopped code. I have grown used to slop for well past a decade, it’s just who creates the slop that changed.
Would I prefer it never got this far and we just had lots of tech jobs? Yes. Do I think we can get back to that even with AI? Also yes.