With agents now able to click buttons and take actions for you, are we underestimating how fast "AI use" is about to look completely different?

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Summary

The article discusses the emerging trend of agentic AI tools that can perform actions beyond chat interfaces. It questions whether the pace of this shift is underestimated and explores its implications for job impact compared to previous AI advancements.

Feels like the conversation around AI has been mostly about chat interfaces for the last couple years — better answers, longer context, etc. But the recent wave of agentic tools that can actually navigate the web and take actions on your behalf (not just draft text) feels like a different category of thing, and I don't think the discourse has caught up. Meanwhile you've got companies like Meta restructuring workflows around AI at the same time, which makes me wonder if the "agent that does things" shift is going to hit certain jobs way faster than the "agent that answers questions" shift did. Not trying to be alarmist, curious what people who actually use agentic tools day to day are seeing — is it actually reliable enough to trust with real tasks yet, or still more demo than daily driver?
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