Average People Still See AI as a Chatbot, Oblivious to Autonomous Coding
mallow610 · x · 2026-08-07
The author notes a massive gap between the AI community and the general public. While average users still view AI as a moderately helpful chatbot unchanged since 2023, the actual frontier has shifted to autonomous coding and agentic task completion—a concept almost impossible to explain to those unfamiliar with how computers work.
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