What do you think of AI employees?

Posted by SunilKumarDash@reddit | LocalLLaMA | View on Reddit | 105 comments

I am seeing a surge in start-ups and large enterprises building AI employees. A good number of well-endowed start-ups are building AI SDRs, SWEs, marketing agents, and Customer success agents. Even Salesforce is working on AgentForce to create no-code salesforce automation agents. This trend is growing faster than I thought; dozens of start-ups are probably in YC this year. I’m not sure if any of them are in production doing the jobs in the real world, and also, these agents may require a dozen integrations to be anywhere close to being functional. As much as I like LLMs, they still don’t seem capable of handling edge cases in real-world jobs. They may be suitable for building automated pipelines for tightly scoped tasks, but replacing humans seems far-fetched. Salesforce Chairman Mark Benioff even commented on not hiring human employees anymore; though it could be their sneaky marketing, it shows their intent. What do you think of this AI employee in general the present and future? I would love to hear your thoughts if you’re building something simillar.