The Attention Cost of Proactive Agents
ivory_tang · x · 2026-07-07
The commentary highlights a core dilemma of proactive agents: every unsolicited piece of information consumes human attention. If the noise outweighs the help, proactiveness becomes meaningless. The author argues that without a comprehensive or robust domain model, general-purpose agents will struggle to be genuinely proactive.
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