Why your AI agent says the job is 'big': it's just latency priming
jacalulu · x · 2026-09-28
Jacalulu shares a UX observation about AI agents: his agent keeps saying it has been given "big jobs" before running off to work. Since agents shouldn't really care about job size, he concludes this is "latency priming" — setting the user's expectation that they'll need to wait a while while the agent works.
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