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Why Normal People Aren’t Using AI Agents (www.wired.com)
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[–] HerbGrower@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] bagsy@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] HerbGrower@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] bagsy@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

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.