@abucci If anything, repeatedly rebooting this "vision of the future" on new tech stacks has been an enormous setback and impediment to progress.
@ngaylinn Yes, I think so too. I'm not surprised by the attempt to slap the label "agent" or "agentive" on LLMs; the hype words are losing their shine and they need to recruit some fresh ones. That's how these cycles tend to work. I think it muddies the meaning of the word "agency", since none of the hyped AI systems have agency but it's hard to imagine a truly intelligent system that lacks it.
@abucci The tech industry's lack of imagination is disappointing. A possible conclusion I'm leaning towards is we don't actually need much new tech right now. They're struggling to invent something we care about, but they have to keep inventing to make those quarterly profits.
@ngaylinn I'm never quite sure if it's just that I'm getting older, but for a good while now I've felt like I don't need any more tech. I'm happy with the computers and phone I have, and those are the main pieces of digital technology I interact with regularly. They don't need to be faster or better; they work fine. I'd be thrilled if I never had to replace them, frankly. I'm mostly happy with the software on them too. I don't feel a need for regular updates with glitzy features. I'm much more excited by maintenance releases that fix particularly irritating bugs or smooth down a rough edge.
But, yes, that is not the sort of mindset that leads to explosive quarterly growth, and we've hitched our economic wagon to that expectation haven't we.
But, yes, that is not the sort of mindset that leads to explosive quarterly growth, and we've hitched our economic wagon to that expectation haven't we.