Cal Newport

So yeah, but you're right.

It's...

magic.

Like the agents are coming.

They've been saying this.

I mean, I wrote the article I wrote, you know, in January, it was like, what happened to the year of the agent?

2025 was the year of the agent.

All we had was coding agents.

That's the only thing that we worked on that whole year.

It was supposed to, I mean, I have the receipts early 2025, all of these executives saying your work as a knowledge worker, not as a computer programmer, but just as a knowledge worker is going to be largely done with agents.

You're going to have agents are going to be a major part of your workforce and

in just a normal office setting.

And none of that happened because it turns out just asking an LLM, give me a plan for doing X, doesn't often actually produce a workable plan.

And to what end?

That's the real question, right?

I mean, I've seen these proposals.

I mean, basically where a lot of these proposals go, I mean, it's the agents were supposed to, we thought that we could just make AI do anything.

So we'll just, we'll have it use the mouse and just use our computers for us.

Oh, that's hard.

We don't know how to do that.