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Sure, lots of stories about how much agentic AI sucks, but plenty of cases where it's genuinely saved time and energy. Such as, uh. Well, for example, ahh, hang on

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Though that is more due to media (including, but not limited to, social) enshittification. There's little newsworthy in finding out that Agent implementation is a costly project, requiring heavy organisational and IT/Data change management. Especially, as the tech has been advertised as magic.

I was on a call where we were discussing how liability for credit card transactions will work if a customer asks the agent to reorder dog food and ends up with a 100 lbs of ground beef overnighted from Argentina for $15k or something. It was distressingly complicated and ambiguous.

Tbh the only positive thing I've heard out of it is chat gpt related. Chronic illness patients being able to use it to compile all their symptoms together in one place and have it show them how to ask the doctor for specific tests and treatments in "doctor language".

I've posted about how AI machine learning has saved me vast amounts of time doing menial redundant tasks in visual effects. No prompts, no data scraping, (no carpel tunnel for me) but it's hard to get anyone to understand that there are practical uses for it beyond stealing art and spreading misinfo