why are AI agents everywhere? and how useful are they, actually?

AI agents can do stuff for you: like organize meetings or, accidentally delete your hard drive. Is this the future Silicon Valley wants for us? To get a preview of what it might be like, Evan Ratliff launched a startup with almost exclusively AI employees and documented the whole thing in his podcast Shell Game. Dexter talks with Evan about what it feels like to have a robot apologize for interrupting your lunch, why Clawdbot and Moltbook weren’t as groundbreaking as you might think, and why he thinks fellow journalists should consider using AI agents. 

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Links: 

• Shell Game on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/shell-game/id1753117762 
• kill switch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@killswitch_pod

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