Most people still use Claude like a chatbot, not an agent
heypearlai · x · 2026-07-21
The post argues that most people use Claude like a search engine, which misses what an agent is for.
- A chatbot workflow is: open a tab, paste a task, take the output, close it.
- An agent should be iterative: it plans, acts, checks its own work, and keeps going even when the user is away.
- The quoted article frames this as the difference between a five-minute agent and one that can keep improving its own work.
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