Everything I've Learned so far About OpenAI's Agents - Leon Furze
The hype train has fully left the station, and every AI punter on every social media channel is going wild about OpenAI’s new “Agents”. Unfortunately, most of the commentators haven’t actually tried the product – they’re relying on OpenAI’s promo video. Even those who have tried Agents seem to have been wooed by its accompanying marketing spiel.
But OpenAI’s product is unfinished: another example of a tech company releasing a technology into the wild just because they can, and not because they should. OpenAI wants to be first to market with a successful browser using AI agent, and they’ll be damned if a little fact like “it doesn’t work” will get in the way.
In my previous post, I explored some of the much hyped features of Agents: making PowerPoints and other resources. It was, predictably, hopeless. But that didn’t stop the hypesters commenting and messaging me with cries of “just wait six months!” and “you’re prompting it wrong!”
So I tried, and tried, and tried again. I wanted desperately to see in Agents what others were seeing: some sort of glorious techno-optimistic future where we’re all freed from the burden of things like… online shopping and… making PowerPoints.
