What would your main pain points and concerns be? I’ve come up with the following list but can’t think of any more problems:
Dream outcome (Donsir Mechas) - Create anything big & of high quality and best practices with a prompt. - Be like God: you ask for something, immediately get the full & perfect response. - 1,000 employees in your pocket. - People will look at you and say, how does he go so fast? How does he get that much done? - Like Devin, but for everything
Problems - Create an account - I will have to copy-paste stuff into my project (code) - I will have to run tests myself - I’ll have to add refinements myself - I’ll have to find bugs and fix them myself - I can’t trust what ai makes, it’s just slop - I will have to use something like Cursor to review and accept/reject the code - I will have to read and internalize what the AI did and how it links with the rest of the code - I will have to give the same large instructions every time in every prompt - I will have to learn about the platform - I’ll have to manage secrets and api keys, and know which of them to give the agent
rlupi•6mo ago
All the CEOs are dreaming of getting rid of workers, but I wonder how many of them think clearly about what they are getting. Depending on a single, or few vendors for full-AI employees is the concrete equivalent of unionizing their workforce. If the vendor decides on a price hike (think about the recent history of VMWare), or their full-AI employee gets dumber or lazier (Claude Code taught us a good lesson here just lately), then your whole AI-powered company is at risk. Our current human-based organizations are much more resilient to single point of failures.
dontoni•6mo ago
From what you said, you won’t accept such a product if it isn’t open source? Or at least, where you can choose the models and pay per use or something similar to that.
My guess is that big, powerful companies won’t use a pay-per-use Devin-like service because they just have so much people they can delegate tasks on that also use Cursor or the like; and startup companies that really need the product’d prefer a fixed rate like Cursor does.
Maybe they’ll actually use specialized agents for multiple tasks, but will also try to build their own solutions or sue frameworks rather than hire another company (like big companies that use Crew AI because it’s open source).
And are you ok with the quality that those full-fledged AI agents (like Devin) deliver? Do you have more pains that the single vendor dilemma?
rlupi•6mo ago
The question I was replying to is very specific: "Imagine an AI agent that’s indistinguishable from a remote worker, something like Devin but for anything and whose medium of contact are email, Slack, phone calls, etc. What are the BIGGEST Problems you'd face with a full-AI employee?"
My answer: I think the major biggest problem is vendor lock-in, because such a solution would be too juicy to resist.