Proactive background agents still need too much human prompting, says maker
menhguin · x · 2026-07-27
The author says proactive background agents for non-coding use cases are still extremely hard to ship.
Their key observation is that they have not yet seen a product where most actions happen by default without human prompting. In other words, current systems still rely on the user to initiate or approve too many steps for a fully proactive workflow to work well.
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