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AI agents may soon surpass people as primary application users

by msolujic on 1/12/25, 2:06 AM with 49 comments

• by great_psy on 1/14/25, 3:14 AM

  We focused so much on how that we didn’t stop to ask why.

  We already have an interface for agents, we call that an API. Why do we need to have AI click buttons, that eventually call an API. Just skip the middle layer and go straight to an API that does everything that system is capable of doing.

• by simonw on 1/14/25, 3:07 AM

  The Accenture report this is based on looks like science fiction to me.

  https://www.accenture.com/us-en/insights/technology/technolo... (links to a PDF which is horrible to read on mobile, I guess Accenture don't think any of their target audience spend work time away from a laptop)

  It talks about "trust" a LOT, which indicates they expect a robust solution to LLM security and reliability (see prompt injection) soon.

  I do not share their optimism.

• by throwawa14223 on 1/14/25, 3:44 AM

  If Accenture says it then it is safe to assume you should do the opposite.

• by jsemrau on 1/14/25, 3:18 AM

  The programmable web is a thing for a long time and I have spent a large portion of my career building infrastructure in that space. Agents are another iteration of digital transformation of services and I am all in for it. That doesn't mean it will replace humans as users. Agents will just operate on another entry point. Maybe compare it to non-lit tunnels for autonomous driving without passengers.

• by ceroxylon on 1/14/25, 3:57 AM

  It feels like that already, most of the accounts that try to interact with me are bots. Dead internet, etc.

• by paul7986 on 1/14/25, 3:18 AM

  My guess is 2026 to 2030...

  - ChatGPT releases a phone where the Lock Screen UI is like a FaceTime call with ur AI agent (can skin ur agent /assistant to however u want). H.E.R. The movie in ur pocket who does everything for u

  - All business will have their own agents and ur personal assistant / agent interfaces with them to get things done for you. I guess your agent could interface with your friends agent when they're not available.

• by dpflan on 1/14/25, 2:37 AM

  3 Fronts are mentioned:

  1. Agentic systems

  2. Digital core

  3. Generative UI

  Generative UI seems interesting to note as it's presented here as a way to create personalized UIs. Which means... that Generative AI creates a UI for each user? What are the implications of such a world? How does support work with this? How does a knowledge base get created to educate customers? How do you have a standardized way of discussing the UI?

• by yawnxyz on 1/14/25, 2:39 AM

  that's not surprising, my server is already getting slammed by AI agent traffic

  (and to be fair, I'm building intelligent automation tools myself, so I'm part of the problem)

• by DeepYogurt on 1/14/25, 3:45 AM

  At what point do we not just write apis then?

• by sxvtemp on 1/14/25, 4:11 AM

  Accenture article is more like like PR and doesn't sound very practical.

  It claim the current beat agent is from Anthropic Sonnet.

• by marcus0x62 on 1/14/25, 3:16 AM

  "Company that hopes to make a lot of consulting revenue from selling AI agents says AI agents are going to be the next big thing."

• by mirkodrummer on 1/14/25, 4:19 AM

  In my experience I’d rather say a user look for a familiar UI which he knows how to navigate, even if boring or similar to other websites if familiar and standardized it can only be a benefit. That’s why projects such as Bootstrap had a huge success imo, and still are despite the increasing usage trend of utility belts like tailwindcss. A custom ui for each user seems so preposterous

• by stubish on 1/14/25, 2:48 AM

  I'm surprised I'm not seeing more 'Are You Human' captures to view content.

• by accrual on 1/14/25, 2:53 AM

  Cyberpunk 2077 becomes reality in 2024

• by ventoffreshair on 1/14/25, 3:19 AM

  AI Agents will be the death of the AI hype. Nobody knows what is a agent. Is running a scraping script an agent? Is something that constructs code on itself based on plain english requirement an agent?

  What comes aftet agent? Nobody knows. It's like the hype of chatbot LLMs circa '21-23.