Comment by theshrike79

Imagine you're a billionaire with infinite resources. You'd have gofers for everything. Get a weird idea while golfing? Shoot a text or call someone and it'll get done (or just tell the assistant that's always following you)

These web agents are similar. You pull out your phone while queueing in the shop, change to your "research" repo and tell it "investigate a way to create a privacy-preserving mobile application to store barcode-based loyalty cards", hit execute and put your phone away.

When you get to it, you can check out what it did for you.

Or if your system is set up properly, you can ask the same thing to make changes to any project, like adding a new feature you just thought up. Get back, review PR, maybe merge it.