> What’s the F is going on? Is the world gone mad or something?

Yes, it's madness but it doesn't matter that it's mad because you can't stop it. It's a technological gold rush, with all of the mixed connotations that "gold rush" should imply.

Agent ready, agent email, agent development, agent agent agent

What’s the F is going on? Is the world gone mad or something?

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This, too, will pass. Like Blackberries and car bras.

I mostly agree with this sentiment, but I do still find it funny how dramatic and curmudgeony many people on HN are.

We are, after all, talking about some metadata here you are more than welcome to leave off your site.

VC money needs to be burned and shareholder value was promised

at least for why Cloudflare keeps repeating the word… Welcome to Agents Week: https://blog.cloudflare.com/welcome-to-agents-week/

I can live with "agent", but "agentic" still sets my teeth on edge.

> Is the world gone mad or something?

Short answer: Yes.

Although it's not the world proper, but a very loud and well-paid cohort of shills, astroturfers and spin doctors. Plus the occasional useful idiot and me-too hitchhikers, no doubt.

The internet went to shit post 2010ish. I fully blame capitalism. At this moment there's 6 AI related articles on the front page.

Agent is an LLM in production doing tasks. I prefer this to the blanket "AI" buzz we had before "agent" took off.