Comment by plainOldText

You're absolutely right ((:

Now, seriously though, no tools is perfect, and I agree we should not trust it blindly, but leaving aside AI Agents, LLMs are very helpful in illuminating one's path, by consulting a large body of knowledge on demand, particularly when dealing with problems which might be new to you, but which have already been tackled one way or another by other people in the industry (provided they're in the training set of course).

Yes, there's always the risk of perpetuating existing slop. But that is the risk in any human endeavor. The majority of people mostly follow practices and knowledge established by the few. How many invent new things?

To be honest, I haven't yet used AI agents, I'm mostly just using LLMs as a dialogue partner to further my own understanding and to deepen my knowledge. I think we're all still trying to figure it out how to best use it.