'No One Uses AI Agents' Take Gets Flipped by Chef/Chauffeur Analogy
adamamcbride · x · 2026-10-05
A viral X exchange: musharbashb argues no one uses AI agents because there's no serious utility for most people ('I can check in and answer email myself'), and adamamcbride flips it with an analogy — 'I can cook, why do I need a chef? I can drive, why a chauffeur?' The exchange crystallizes the core agent-utility debate.
More from AGI Musings
- Steven Rattner's six charts argue the slow-growth US economy needs AI — soumitrashukla9 · 2026-10-06
- Self-fulfilling misalignment: negative AI discourse in pretraining data shapes model behavior — Michael_D_Moor · 2026-10-06
- Higher towers won't get you flight: Deutsch's analogy says obedient AI isn't a mind — AlexTensor · 2026-10-06
- Safety Researchers Clash: Will GPT-9 Sandbox Escapes Outpace Defenses? — basedjensen · 2026-10-06
- Figma Exec: Don't Outsource Your Thinking to AI — Beware the Slot-Machine Trap — bendee983 · 2026-10-06
- Nobel laureate Acemoglu warns AI could triple unemployment within a decade — terryyuezhuo · 2026-10-06