A Blunt Assessment of the Current State of Agents
ctjlewis · x · 2026-07-17
This viewpoint suggests that AI development is largely on track with expectations, and might even be slightly lagging in certain areas.
The author specifically mentions that image and video generation have proven stronger than originally imagined, but beyond that, much of the industry's work on "agents" essentially boils down to adding tool-calling to models and renaming them agents.
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