Nathaniel Whittemore

I tried out agent mode and it was like watching a first-time computer user painstakingly learn to use a mouse for the first time.

I have yet to find my own use cases for when this kind of interaction feels useful to me, though he says I'm not ruling that out.

And this I feel like was a lot of people's experience.

Yuchen Jin wrote, tried the OpenAI browser for 20 minutes, quit and went back to Chrome.

Agent mode is slop.

Most of the time I just want to yell, stop thinking and click that effing button.

The models are not there yet.

We've got a whole decade of AI agents ahead.

Of course, referring to the Andre Carpathy dustup that we've covered extensively.

Yuchen also pointed out, it's also scary to give an incompetent agent access to all my passwords and data.

What if it goes crazy?

If the OpenAI browser agent leaks my bank and Robinhood passwords, causing me to lose all my money, who's responsible?

John Rush writes, Nothing is more disappointing than the browser agents.

They work so slow and get stuck in infinite loops.

I think it'd be smarter for AI to watch the network inspector learn the APIs, reverse engineer them, and make direct calls.

E.g.

I'd use the website while the agent is watching the API calls to reproduce them again later.

And to be clear, these are not AI critics that are having this negative experience with this agent.

The other big question is how does this all come together?

Chubby writes, the question that arises for me is what is OpenAI's next goal?