Taking the Red Pill on Agents

Taking the Red Pill on Agents

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Taking the Red Pill on Agents Joseph Rayment · Follow 8 min read · Just now Scrolling through LinkedIn these days can feel like stepping into a Matrix designed by overenthusiastic marketing teams. ‘Agents’ are suddenly everywhere — though unlike Hugo Weaving’s iconic bullet-dodging enforcers, most AI ‘Agents’ today resemble caffeinated lemmings in designer sunglasses, following prescribed workflows rather than bending reality and knowing Kung-Fu. Why the disconnect? The label ‘agent’ implies a level of autonomy that current AI simply can’t responsibly achieve . While LLM powered applications can be remarkably effective within well-defined parameters, calling them ‘agents’ fosters inflated expectations among both providers and users. As the founder of Automatise, a legal AI startup, I’ve seen firsthand the power of AI-assisted automation — as well as the letdown […]

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