Dev: Agents With Ambient Listening Make @-Mentioning Feel Like the Stone Age

cramforce · x · 2026-11-11

Malte Ubl says that once you experience an agent with excellent ambient listening — where the agent decides for itself when to respond — having to @-mention your agent on every turn feels like "the stone age, also known as the first half of 2026."

The observation points to a shift in agent interaction paradigms: from user-invoked responses to an always-present agent that autonomously decides when to chime in.

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