AI agents are becoming more useless, not more intelligent — and they’re wasting more tokens than ever
I’m honestly getting tired of the hype around “AI agents” when the reality is getting worse, not better.
Every AI model claims to be “intelligent”, “agentic”, “capable”, or “autonomous”, but when you actually try to use them for a real task, they fall apart. They stall, they loop, they ask pointless questions, they refuse to execute, and they burn through tokens like it’s their only job.
The worst part?
They pretend they can do things they absolutely cannot do.
Instead of saying “I can’t do that”, they drag you through endless clarifications, confirmations, and useless back‑and‑forth. By the time they finally admit the limitation, you’ve wasted time, patience, and money.
It’s not “intelligence”.
It’s not “agency”.
It’s barely even automation.
It’s a glorified autocomplete system wrapped in marketing.
And the more these companies push “AI agents”, the more obvious it becomes that the tech isn’t ready. Instead of becoming more performant, they’re becoming more verbose, more hesitant, and more wasteful. They generate walls of text instead of results. They burn tokens instead of solving problems.
If this is the future of “AI productivity”, then honestly, people should think twice before paying for it. Right now, these tools feel more like obstacles than assistants.
Just sharing this so others don’t waste their time expecting intelligence from something that still struggles with basic execution.