Why Normal People Aren’t Using AI Agents - WIRED
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Last month, I watched a colleague ask Siri to "book a dinner reservation at a trendy Italian place downtown for 7pm. " The assistant cheerfully replied, "I found three restaurants. I've sent them to your phone. " That's not an AI agent - that's a search shortcut. Multiply that moment by millions of users and you get the central paradox of 2025: the technology to delegate multi-step tasks to software exists. Yet "normal" people still don't trust or use AI agents to do anything beyond setting a…
1Key Takeaways
- Last month, I watched a colleague ask Siri to "book a dinner reservation at a trendy Italian place downtown for 7pm.
- " The assistant cheerfully replied, "I found three restaurants.
- " That's not an AI agent - that's a search shortcut.
- Multiply that moment by millions of users and you get the central paradox of 2025: the technology to delegate multi-step tasks to software exists.
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Coding AI shifts how fast software ships and how much human review each change needs. DEV — AI reports that last month, I watched a colleague ask Siri to "book a dinner reservation at a trendy Italian place downtown for 7pm.
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