Comment by steve_adams_86
4 hours ago
> Maybe this time is different
It is in the sense that you performed tasks for people, and knew which tasks needed to be performed. The advent of agentic programs now means those same tasks can be deduced by the agent and also performed by it. There's a very thin moat between you and that, now.
some people, most people i'd say, don't really enjoy working with computers. if you ask anyone on the street they know chatgpt of course but ask them what an agent is and they will have no idea.
That's okay, though. Agents are an abstraction no one will really need to understand. They will still benefit from it when they press a button to 'do the thing' which previously required a human.