Agents Can Now Click Buttons for You: Has the Discourse Caught Up?
Fit-Cream-7169 · reddit · 2026-09-26
A Reddit post argues that AI discourse has fixated on chat interfaces while a new wave of agentic tools can actually navigate the web and take actions on your behalf. Combined with companies like Meta restructuring workflows around AI, the author wonders if job disruption from action-taking agents will arrive faster than the question-answering shift — and asks whether agents are reliable enough for real tasks yet or still more demo than daily driver.
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