Is it all just vapourware?
A software engineer critiques the current state of AI agent software, labeling much of it as 'vapourware' due to poor user experience and lack of rigorous testing. The author shares a frustrating personal experience with an automation tool that failed to deliver on its promises despite significant costs.
Maybe I’m just too cynical but it’s really starting to feel like more or less all of this new “AI”/agent software is vapourware. I’ve been trying to take this whole “agentic development” thing seriously and there is just so much friction in this ecosystem it’s absolutely insane. It’s very clear that all this stuff is built by engineers who a) have free access to unlimited tokens and b) have no systematic review or QA process for usability testing or dogfooding their products except on the most straightforward of happy paths.
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