Comment by nerdjon
1 day ago
This is why research like this is important and needs to keep being published.
What we have seen the last few years is a conscious marketing effort to rebrand everything ML as AI and to use terms like "Reasoning", "Extended Thinking" and others that for many non technical people give the impression that it is doing far more than it is actually doing.
Many of us here can see his research and be like... well yeah we already knew this. But there is a very well funded effort to oversell what these systems can actually do and that is reaching the people that ultimately make the decisions at companies.
So the question is no longer will AI Agents be able to do most white collar work. They can probably fake it well enough to accomplish a few tasks and management will see that. But will the output actually be valuable long term vs short term gains.
I'm happy enough if I'm better off for having used a tool than having not.
Most people weren’t happy when the 2008 crash happened, and bank bailouts were needed, and a global recession ensued.
Most people here are going to use a coding agent, be happy about it (like you), and go on their merry way.
Most people here are not making near trillion dollar bets on the world changing power of AI.
EVERYONE here will be affected by those bets. It’s one thing if those bets pay off if future subscription growth matches targets. It’s an entirely different thing if those bets require “reasoning” to pan out.