LlamaIndex founder: AI agents boost my productivity, but far from superhuman

lateinteraction · x · 2026-09-13

Jerry Liu (LlamaIndex founder) offers a candid first-person take on agent productivity

Models are "extremely good by past AI standards" — good enough to be daily drivers for much of his work — but "superhuman at any coherently broad skill" he cares about, they are not.
His experience is jagged: overall productivity is up, but a considerable fraction of the gain is gamification. Agents make work feel like play, letting him persist on tasks he'd have found too unstimulating and spread judgment across more exploratory, less essential frontiers.
The most important threads of work may not benefit — or may even get hurt. He's happier working in agent software, but says the reality is "orders of magnitude off" from the hype on X.

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