Still no agents

For as long as humans have come up with tools: axes, abacuses, calculators, they have always multiplied the effort and skill of their users. In the hands of a master, they do wonders; in the hands of the unprepared, they cut fingers off. With computers nothing changed: still a force amplifier, a “bicycle for the mind”. Amplification reached new, sometimes transformative levels, but there was never any magic. If what you're multiplying is zero or negative, don’t expect a positive outcome. The rule is solid: garbage in, garbage out. But in 2025 everyone started talking about agentic agent agency, as if we’d already crossed the threshold from amplifiers to independent creators. AI companies promise a future where technology acts on its own, and many take these promises at face value, rarely asking who those promises are actually really for. Now, users find themselves believing that the future is already here, that AI has truly achieved agency and can read your mind, and create and decide…