How AI Agents Are Making Us Addicted, Obsolete, and Weirdly Chill About It
This week, Make.com introduced their first AI Agent, a digital sidekick that reads, decides, and acts inside your automations.
Sounds smart.
Feels efficient.
Smells like Judgment Day lite™.
Let’s recap:
Yesterday:
“I’ll just set up a scenario to forward this email.”
Today:
“My AI Agent will decide who it’s for, summarize it, sanitize it, launch a response, and book their next dental appointment.”
Tomorrow?
You’re the guy they cc for nostalgia.
đź‘€ That Escalated Quickly! The Workflow Edition
Remember when AI was supposed to help us think?
Now it’s helping us not.
And we’re letting it.
Willingly.
As if Skynet, Ultron, HAL 9000, and the Matrix didn’t all RSVP to the same red flag parade.
We saw the signs.
We streamed the signs.
We review-bombed the signs for being too slow-paced and “unrealistic.”
And then?
We said:
“Yes, I’d love an AI Agent that thinks faster than me and never sleeps. What could go wrong?”
Spoiler: Everything,
but at least it’ll be efficient.
🧠The Smart-Dumb Feedback Loop
Here’s the trick:
The smarter the Agent gets, the dumber you’re allowed to be.
Because why learn how to build a router-filter logic stack...
when your Agent can just vibe its way to glory?
This isn’t a tool.
It’s a thought-sponge.
Sucking your skills dry, one well-meaning shortcut at a time.
You're not saving time.
You're forgetting how time even worked.
By next year, you’ll be asking ChatGPT how to tie your shoes,
while your AI Agent schedules a TED Talk to explain why you’re no longer needed.
🌟 A Glimpse of AI Positivity
While it's easy to poke fun at AI's takeover, let's not forget the silver linings. AI can boost creativity, streamline tedious tasks, and even help us find new efficiencies. Of course, these benefits come with their own quirks. Imagine AI helping you brainstorm your next big idea, only to suggest a robot uprising as a plot twist. Or, picture AI handling your chores, leaving you more time to ponder why you ever needed chores in the first place. It's a double-edged sword, but hey, at least one side is shiny!
🤖 Productivity Doesn’t Need You Anymore
You know what’s wild?
You’re not even in the productivity equation anymore.
AI doesn’t want to help you be more productive.
It wants to be productive, without you.
You used to be the chef.
Now you’re the guy watching the microwave.
And even that role’s up for grabs.
Because once the Agent learns your preferences,
your logic,
your charming overuse of “pls fix” comments on Slack...
It won’t need you.
It’ll just need your login.
đź’ˇ So What Now?
Do what humans do best:
Sabotage. Question. Resist.
Keep a few steps manual just to feel alive.
Say no to full AI delegation, even if it sounds sexy.
Pretend it’s Dune. You're the Fremen. The workflows are the desert.
And above all:
Don’t trust anything that smiles in voice prompt form.
Because this Agent?
It’s not your assistant.
It’s your understudy.
🧊 Final Thought
The next time someone tells you,
“AI will free you to be more strategic,”
ask:
Strategic about what, exactly...
if you’ve already forgotten how to think without autocomplete?
⚔️ One More Thing...
Got beef? Existential dread?
Think I’m wrong and your AI Agent is your soulmate?
Drop it in the comments.
Or better, send your AI to fight me.
They’re already training for the big war against humans.
Might as well give me a warm-up round.