What to build instead of AI agents

I love that there are somehow authorities on tech that realistically they could have 1-2 years experience with tops. It’s the reverse of the “seeking coder with 10 years of experience in a 2 year old language” meme.

I've been building what's called ai agents since gpt3 came out. There are plenty of other people who did the same thing. That's five years now. If you can't be an expert after 5 years then there is no such thing as experts.

Of course agents is now a buzzword that means nothing so there is that.

“Agent” involves having agency. Calling the GPT-3 API and asking it to do some classification or whatever else your use case was, would not be considered agentic. Not only were there no tools back then to allow an LLM to carry out a plan of its own, even if you had developed your own, GPT-3 still sucked way too much to trust it with even basic tasks.

I have been working on LLMs since 2017, both training some of the biggest and then creating products around them and consider I have no experience with agents.

All llms still suck too much to trust them with basic tasks without human in the loop. The only people who don't realize this are the ones whose paycheck depends on them not understanding it.