Josh Miller Questions Why AI Agents Lack Mainstream Use

Josh Miller posted that frontier AI models are powerful yet ordinary people show no interest in agents the way they once discussed Instagram or TikTok. Robert Scoble noted agents still lack a familiar desktop metaphor and intuitive interface. Finn McKenty argued users want less work and find agents too complex to set up. Hiten Shah emphasized the need for clear answers on what an agent can see, do, and how often it errs. Josh Elman and others expressed optimism that the technology will soon become useful and approachable for everyday lives. The posts frame adoption as a question of trust and mental models rather than raw model capability.