Dev Opinion: 'Agents' are just reprompts, not new AI lives
gerardsans · x · 2026-08-28
Gerard Sans questioned the popular concept of "agents," arguing that they don't truly exist. He posits that agents are essentially just different prompts sent to the same or different LLMs. He emphasized that a new chat window is not a newborn AI, but simply another query to an LLM like the millions being processed right now.
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