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Why I'm Betting Against AI Agents in 2025 (Despite Building Them)

news.ycombinator.com Utkarsh Kanwat 2025-07-20 08:59:19

Everyone says 2025 is the year of AI agents. The headlines are everywhere: "Autonomous AI will transform work," "Agents are the next frontier," "The future is agentic." Meanwhile, I've spent the last year building many different agent systems that actually work in production. And that's exactly why I'm betting against the current hype. I'm not some AI skeptic writing from the sidelines. Over the past year, I've built more than a dozen production agent systems across the entire software developm

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Show HN: Am-I-vibing, detect agentic coding environments

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-07-20 02:07:41

Detect agentic coding environments and AI assistant tools. This library allows CLI tools and Node apps to detect when they're being executed by AI agents. This enables them to adapt by, for example, providing different output formats or logs. Installation Install as library: npm install am-i-vibing Run as CLI tool: npx am-i-vibing import { detectAgenticEnvironment } from "am-i-vibing" ; const result = detectAgenticEnvironment ( ) ; console . log ( `Detected: ${ result . name } ( ${ result

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Rethinking CLI interfaces for AI

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-07-20 02:58:42

We need to augment our command line tools and design APIs so they can be better used by LLM Agents. The designs are inadequate for LLMs as they are now – especially if you're constrained by the tiny context windows available with local models. Agent APIs Like many developers, I’ve been dipping my toes into LLM agents. I’ve done my fair share of vibe coding, but also I’ve been playing around with using LLMs to automate reverse engineering tasks mostly using mrexodia’s IDA Pro MCP , including ex

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Angry Callers Accusing Real Customer Support Staff of Being AI

futurism.com Unknown 2025-07-20 03:15:38

A penny for the thoughts of our thankless call center workers. Long have they had to endure indignant customers fuming at them for problems beyond their control. And now they must suffer accusations that call their very humanity in question, Bloomberg reports, as the proliferation of AI tech has many callers suspecting that the human they're speaking to is actually a chatbot. If these customer support personnel weren't treated like robots before, in other words, they are now — in a distressing

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How OpenAI’s red team made ChatGPT agent into an AI fortress

venturebeat.com Louis Columbus 2025-07-20 09:13:52

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now In case you missed it, OpenAI yesterday debuted a powerful new feature for ChatGPT and with it, a host of new security risks and ramifications. Called the “ChatGPT agent,” this new feature is an optional mode that ChatGPT paying subscribers can engage by clicking “Tools” in the prompt entry box and selecting “agent mode,” at which point, t

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Why AI is moving from chatbots to the browser

theverge.com Alex Heath 2025-07-20 10:04:08

Happy Friday. I’m back from vacation and still getting caught up on everything I missed. AI researchers moving jobs is getting covered like NBA trades now, apparently. Before I get into this week’s issue, I want to make sure you check out my interview with Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas on Decoder this week. It’s a good deep dive on the main topic of today’s newsletter. Keep reading for a scoop on Substack and more from this week in AI news. From chatbots to browsers So far, when most people

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The Israeli "art student" mystery (2002)

news.ycombinator.com Christopher Ketcham 2025-07-21 00:55:40

In January 2001, the security branch of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency began to receive a number of peculiar reports from DEA field offices across the country. According to the reports, young Israelis claiming to be art students and offering artwork for sale had been attempting to penetrate DEA offices for over a year. The Israelis had also attempted to penetrate the offices of other law enforcement and Department of Defense agencies. Strangest of all, the “students” had visited the homes of n

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I sent ChatGPT Agent out to shop for me

theverge.com Hayden Field 2025-07-21 02:45:00

is The Verge’s senior AI reporter. An AI beat reporter for more than five years, her work has also appeared in CNBC, MIT Technology Review, Wired UK, and other outlets. Think of OpenAI’s new ChatGPT Agent as a day-one intern who’s incredibly slow at every task but will eventually get the job done. Well… most of the job. Or… at least part of it. Usually. It’s been one day since OpenAI debuted ChatGPT Agent, which it bills as a tool that can complete a wide range of complex, multi-step tasks on

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Salesforce used AI to cut support load by 5% — but the real win was teaching bots to say ‘I’m sorry’

venturebeat.com Michael Nuñez 2025-07-22 02:00:00

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now Salesforce has crossed a significant threshold in the enterprise AI race, surpassing 1 million autonomous agent conversations on its help portal — a milestone that offers a rare glimpse into what it takes to deploy AI agents at massive scale and the surprising lessons learned along the way. The achievement, confirmed by company executives

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OpenAI launches a full-fledged ChatGPT agent which can work without supervision

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-07-22 12:21:07

Calvin Wankhede / Android Authority TL;DR OpenAI has announced a new ChatGPT agent mode that can operate independently without active supervision. ChatGPT agent combines the previous capabilities of web operators and deep research, allowing it to think more like a human. It can connect with and work on third-party apps, such as Gmail or Google Drive, with minimal input. OpenAI has just announced that it is stepping into the era of more sophisticated agentic AI with a new ChatGPT feature. A n

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ChatGPT can now browse and perform web-based tasks for you

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-07-23 02:34:40

In a quick live stream today, OpenAI announced ChatGPT agent, which improves on its promising, but limited Operator feature announced a few months ago. Here’s how it works Operator meets Deep Research What OpenAI did was combine Operator, which already had agentic browsing capabilities, and Deep Research, which can quickly consume, understand, and infer on website content. The result is an agent that gets spun up on a virtual machine when you assign it a task, and then it just… goes. It can

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ChatGPT’s new AI agent can browse the web and create PowerPoint slideshows

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-07-23 06:41:52

On Thursday, OpenAI launched ChatGPT Agent, a new feature that lets the company's AI assistant complete multi-step tasks by controlling its own web browser. The update merges capabilities from OpenAI's earlier Operator tool and the Deep Research feature, allowing ChatGPT to navigate websites, run code, and create documents while users maintain control over the process. The feature marks OpenAI's latest entry into what the tech industry calls "agentic AI"—systems that can take autonomous multi-s

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OpenAI unveils ‘ChatGPT agent’ that gives ChatGPT its own computer to autonomously use your email and web apps, download and create files for you

venturebeat.com Carl Franzen 2025-07-23 08:16:33

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now OpenAI isn’t letting the delay of its open source AI model slow it down on shipping other features. Today, the company is unveiling ChatGPT agent, a feature that allows its AI chatbot to autonomously browse the web, conduct extensive research, download and create new files for its human users using its own virtual computer. Come again? Ch

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Finding value from AI agents from day one

technologyreview.com Mit Technology Review Insights 2025-07-23 10:27:23

From assuming oversight for complex workflows, such as procurement or recruitment, to carrying out proactive cybersecurity checks or automating support, enterprises are abuzz at the potential use cases for agentic AI. According to one Capgemini survey, 50% of business executives are set to invest in and implement AI agents in their organizations in 2025, up from just 10% currently. Gartner has also forecast that 33% of enterprise software applications will incorporate agentic AI by 2028. For co

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OpenAI Unleashes ChatGPT Agent to Be Your Personal Assistant

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-07-23 08:59:25

OpenAI has launched ChatGPT Agent for Pro, Plus and Team users -- an AI-powered personal assistant that connects to your various services online to help complete tasks custom to you, the company said in a livestream on Thursday. Using the power of OpenAI's "reasoning" o3 model, which has deep research capabilities, along with Operator, ChatGPT Agent can go step-by-step from one task to the other to put together complex reports. ChatGPT Agent can visualize what it's doing via a virtual computer

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ChatGPT isn't just for chatting anymore - now it will do your work for you

zdnet.com Sabrina Ortiz 2025-07-23 18:59:00

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Not too long ago, I wrote that AI agents were the future of AI: tools that could carry out tasks for you, like ordering groceries or booking meetings. OpenAI's latest launch makes that reality appear a bit closer. Also: AI agents will change work and society in internet-sized ways, says AWS VP On Thursday, during a live stream, OpenAI launched a ChatGPT agent, which the company claims can handle complex tasks for you from start to finish. Some examples OpenAI prov

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OpenAI’s New ChatGPT Agent Tries to Do It All

wired.com Reece Rogers 2025-07-23 18:00:00

Isa Fulford, the research lead for OpenAI’s new ChatGPT agent, needed to order a bunch of cupcakes, so she asked the AI tool to do it for her. “I was very specific about what I wanted, and it was a lot of cupcakes,” she says. “That one took almost an hour—but it was easier than me doing it myself, because I didn't want to do it.” OpenAI has launched a new agent for ChatGPT that uses a virtual browser to complete tasks and can generate downloadable files, specifically PowerPoint presentations an

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OpenAI’s new ChatGPT Agent can control an entire computer and do tasks for you

theverge.com Hayden Field 2025-07-23 18:00:00

is The Verge’s senior AI reporter. An AI beat reporter for more than five years, her work has also appeared in CNBC, MIT Technology Review, Wired UK, and other outlets. OpenAI is going all-in on the most-hyped trend in AI right now: AI agents, or tools that go a step beyond chatbots to complete complex, multi-step tasks on a user’s behalf. The company on Thursday debuted ChatGPT Agent, which it bills as a tool that can complete work on your behalf using its own “virtual computer.” In a briefin

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OpenAI launches a general purpose agent in ChatGPT

techcrunch.com Maxwell Zeff 2025-07-23 18:00:03

OpenAI is launching a new general purpose AI agent in ChatGPT, which the company says can complete a wide variety of computer-based tasks on behalf of users. OpenAI says the agent can automatically navigate a user’s calendar, generate editable presentations and slideshows, and run code. The tool, called ChatGPT agent, combines several capabilities from OpenAI’s previous agentic tools, including Operator’s ability to click around on websites, as well as Deep Research’s ability to synthesize info

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AI agents will change work and society in internet-sized ways, says AWS VP

zdnet.com Sabrina Ortiz 2025-07-24 02:04:22

AWS Summit 2025 at the Javits Center in NYC. Sabrina Ortiz/ZDNET Forget the old Apple slogan, "Think different." For Deepak Singh, VP of developer agents and experiences at AWS, the mantra of the future is "work differently," and the way he wants to do that is through agentic AI. "I think people get too hung up on the automation and efficiency, part of which are outcomes," said Singh. "We are working differently, but the way we are working different is making us more effective because [agents

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Blaxel raises $7.3M seed round to build ‘AWS for AI agents’ after processing billions of agent requests

venturebeat.com Michael Nuñez 2025-07-24 10:00:00

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now Blaxel, a startup building cloud infrastructure specifically designed for artificial intelligence agents, has raised $7.3 million in seed funding led by First Round Capital, the company announced Tuesday. The financing comes just three months after the six-founder team graduated from Y Combinator’s Spring 2025 batch, underscoring investor a

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How and where will agents ship software?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-07-26 02:47:08

We’re entering a new phase of software engineering. People are becoming addicted to agents. Beginners are vibe-coding apps and experts are maxing out their LLM subscriptions. This means that a lot more people are going to make a lot more apps, and for that we’re going to need new tools. Today we’re releasing an API that gives you and your agents full-stack backends. Each backend comes with a database, a sync engine, auth tools, file storage, and presence. Agents can use these tools to ship hig

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AWS unveils Bedrock AgentCore, a new platform for building enterprise AI agents with open source frameworks and tools

venturebeat.com Emilia David 2025-07-26 06:31:56

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now Cloud giant Amazon Web Services (AWS) believes AI agents will change how we all work and interact with information, and that enterprises need a platform that allows them to build and deploy agents at scale — all in one place. Today at its New York Summit, AWS unveiled Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, a new enterprise-grade platform designed to bu

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AWS aims to be your one-stop-shop for AI agents from Anthropic, IBM, Perplexity, and others

zdnet.com Webb Wright 2025-07-26 10:00:00

SOPA Images / Contributor/Getty Amazon Web Services (AWS) wants to be the go-to marketplace for businesses looking to buy and implement AI agents. At the annual AWS Summit in New York City on Wednesday, Amazon announced the launch of AI agents and Tools, a new virtual store within AWS Marketplace where enterprise customers can search through agents from Anthropic, IBM, Perplexity, Salesforce, and other vendors. Also: How agentic AI is transforming the very foundations of business strategy Cr

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Former Top Google Researchers Have Made a New Kind of AI Agent

wired.com Will Knight 2025-07-26 13:02:47

A new kind of artificial intelligence agent, trained to understand how software is built by gorging on a company’s data and learning how this leads to an end product, could be both a more capable software assistant and a small step toward much smarter AI. The new agent, called Asimov, was developed by Reflection, a small but ambitious startup cofounded by top AI researchers from Google. Asimov reads code as well as emails, Slack messages, project updates, and other documentation with the goal o

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Former Top Google Researchers Have Made A New Kind of AI Agent

wired.com Will Knight 2025-07-26 18:02:47

A new kind of artificial intelligence agent, trained to understand how software is built by gorging on a company’s data and learning how this leads to an end product, could be both a more capable software assistant and a small step towards much smarter AI. The new agent, called Asimov, was developed by Reflection, a small but ambitious startup confounded by top AI researchers from Google. Asimov reads code as well as emails, Slack messages, project updates and other documentation with the goal

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Open-source framework for real-time AI voice

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-07-28 10:40:18

VideoSDK AI Agents Open-source framework for developing real-time multimodal conversational AI agents. Overview The AI Agent SDK is a Python framework built on top of the VideoSDK Python SDK that enables AI-powered agents to join VideoSDK rooms as participants. This SDK serves as a real-time bridge between AI models (like OpenAI and Gemini) and your users, facilitating seamless voice and media interactions. # Feature Description 1 🎤 Real-time Communication (Audio/Video) Agents can listen, sp

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How agentic AI is transforming the very foundations of business strategy

zdnet.com David Gewirtz 2025-07-31 16:00:13

Jiojio/Getty Images Business is on a never-ending quest to boost efficiency, cut costs, and increase productivity. Some of the earliest known businesses -- ancient Mesopotamian traders -- inspired the invention of writing. (Record keeping -- now that's a competitive advantage!) Similar needs have existed in every economic period. The big difference now is that AI technology can boost these efficiencies in new and exponentially profitable ways. Agentic AI is at the core of this efficiency boost

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Show HN: ArchGW – an intelligent edge and service proxy for agents

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-07-31 02:55:39

Hey HN! This is Adil, Salman and Jose and and we’re behind archgw [1]. An intelligent proxy server designed as an edge and AI gateway for agents - one that natively know how to handle prompts, not just network traffic. We’ve made several sweeping changes so sharing the project again. A bit of background on why we’ve built this project. Building AI agent demos is easy, but to create something production-ready there is a lot of repeat low-level plumbing work that everyone is doing. You’re applyi

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Chrome's hidden X-Browser-Validation header reverse engineered

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-07-29 15:00:10

Chrome X-Browser-Validation Header Reverse Engineering & Generator Chrome recently added a few new headers: "x-browser-channel": "stable", "x-browser-copyright": "Copyright 2025 Google LLC. All rights reserved.", "x-browser-validation": "6h3XF8YcD8syi2FF2BbuE2KllQo=", "x-browser-year": "2025" Apart from one of them, there isn’t much that’s interesting. They’re just bits of client specific information. However, base64 decoding x-browser-validation yields what appears to be a hash whose purpose

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Why I'm Betting Against AI Agents in 2025 (Despite Building Them)

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Finding value from AI agents from day one

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ChatGPT isn't just for chatting anymore - now it will do your work for you

OpenAI’s New ChatGPT Agent Tries to Do It All

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Open-source framework for real-time AI voice

How agentic AI is transforming the very foundations of business strategy

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