For the last year or so, companies like Anthropic, Microsoft, OpenAI, and more have been promising that this agentic technology would be the next phase of AI, the next big hype-filled thing that comes after general-purpose chatbots.
They say it could really unlock generative AI’s potential, and it’s true that they’ve made some strides.
But as we’ve seen so far, agents aren’t quite there yet, and they have a ways to go.
Most of us are not, in fact, sending agents off on the internet to do our bidding, and we’re certainly not giving them tasks that might take 12, 24, or even 30–plus hours of autonomous work without human handholding. At least, not yet.
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