Because that’s what investors want. From observations at my workplace at a B2C software company[1] and from what I hear from others in the space, there is tremendous pressure from investors to incorporate AI and particularly “AI agents” in whatever way is possible, whether or not it makes sense given the context. Investors are enthusiastic about “a cheap drop-in replacement for a human worker” in a way that they are not for “tools which make employees better at some tasks”
The CEOs are reading the script they need to read to make their boards happy,. That script talks about faster horses, so by golly their companies have the fastest horses to ever horse.
Meanwhile you have tools like Copilot and Cursor which allow workers to vastly amplify their work but not fully offload it, and you have structured outputs from LLMs allowing for conversion of unstructured to structured data at incredible scales. But talking about your adoption of those tools will not get you funding, and so you don’t hear as much about that style of tooling.
Because that’s what investors want. From observations at my workplace at a B2C software company[1] and from what I hear from others in the space, there is tremendous pressure from investors to incorporate AI and particularly “AI agents” in whatever way is possible, whether or not it makes sense given the context. Investors are enthusiastic about “a cheap drop-in replacement for a human worker” in a way that they are not for “tools which make employees better at some tasks”
The CEOs are reading the script they need to read to make their boards happy,. That script talks about faster horses, so by golly their companies have the fastest horses to ever horse.
Meanwhile you have tools like Copilot and Cursor which allow workers to vastly amplify their work but not fully offload it, and you have structured outputs from LLMs allowing for conversion of unstructured to structured data at incredible scales. But talking about your adoption of those tools will not get you funding, and so you don’t hear as much about that style of tooling.
Obligatory “Views expressed are my own and do not necessarily reflect those of my employer”