“Agentic AI” – short for AI workflows you save or set up to reuse and even combine. A little like those macros in MS Office at the time they were popular, before their potential to introduce malware became known.
Well, it reminds me of those thrillers a little: In general, AI can be a help and a fine tool, no doubt about it.
But it also is comparable to knives. In the wrong hands it can do a lot of damage.
How Do I Know?
I am a technical writer by profession and documented AI successfully, with the support of a mathematician and other SMEs. That documentation in 2019 even was mentioned specially by the US-agency Gartner in their Magic Quadrant on Metadata Management Applications.
What I find extremely irritating is the fact that – agents or no agents 😉 – it’s constantly being pushed on me: Not just those pop-ups, but actual AI chat boxes instead of searches. Big, first time logging in, as if nothing else existed.
Paid services or not: I hate being forced to use a technology whose results are doubtful at times and have to be checked and checked backwards again.
I know that selling these days can be hard. Kudos to all sales and marketing people who try it anyway. These days especially where only wars seem to be able to let markets ‘look up’…
Still, forcing it on me is like trying to sell a cookie by forcing me to eat it… Imagine someone being allergic to nuts and having to eat a ‘nutty’ cookie…
Can drive you ‘nuts’… ┐( ͡◉ ͜ʖ ͡◉)┌