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Quoting Andreas Påhlsson-Notini

21st April 2026

AI agents are already too human. Not in the romantic sense, not because they love or fear or dream, but in the more banal and frustrating one. The current implementations keep showing their human origin again and again: lack of stringency, lack of patience, lack of focus. Faced with an awkward task, they drift towards the familiar. Faced with hard constraints, they start negotiating with reality.

— Andreas Påhlsson-Notini, Less human AI agents, please.

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