Boris Mann via Simon Willison: '11 AI Agents Is Meaningless — Same as Saying I Have 11 Spreadsheets'
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Simon Willison quotes Boris Mann's sharp take on AI agent hype: 'If I said I have 11 spreadsheets or 11 browser tabs to do my work, it means about the same thing.' The quote pushes back on the tendency to treat agent count as a meaningful metric, arguing that agents are tools like any other — the number is irrelevant without context on what they actually accomplish.