Multimodal Is Not a Feature Anymore. It's the New Baseline.

Description and use

<p>I spend a lot of time in the AI space -- reading papers, building things, talking to engineers who are actually shipping. And there is a gap between what the demos show and what production systems actually look like that nobody is being fully honest about.</p> <p>So here is my honest take on where things actually are.</p> <h2> The Problem With How We Talk About AI Agents </h2> <p>Everyone is calling everything an "agent" right now. A function that calls a tool? Agent. A chatbot with memory? Agent. A script with a loop? Agent.</p> <p>This dilution is not just semantic. It is causing real eng

Problem

<p>I spend a lot of time in the AI space -- reading papers, building things, talking to engineers who are actually shipping. And there is a gap between what the demos show and what production systems actually look like that nobody is being fully honest about.</p> <p>So here is my honest take on where things actually are.</p> <h2> The Problem With How We Talk About AI Agents </h2> <p>Everyone is calling everything an "agent" right now. A function that calls a tool? Agent. A chatbot with memory? Agent. A script with a loop? Agent.</p> <p>This dilution is not just semantic. It is causing real eng

Outcome

<p>I spend a lot of time in the AI space -- reading papers, building things, talking to engineers who are actually shipping. And there is a gap between what the demos show and what production systems actually look like that nobody is being fully honest about.</p> <p>So here is my honest take on where things actually are.</p> <h2> The Problem With How We Talk About AI Agents </h2> <p>Everyone is calling everything an "agent" right now. A function that calls a tool? Agent. A chatbot with memory? Agent. A script with a loop? Agent.</p> <p>This dilution is not just semantic. It is causing real eng

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Multimodal Is Not a Feature Anymore. It's the New Baseline.

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