Wired: The Agent Industry Is Building for What Models Can Do, Not What Consumers Want
Wired·low signal
A Wired piece circulating on Hacker News argues mainstream consumers have not adopted AI agents because the industry has designed around model capability rather than around jobs ordinary users actually want done. It lands against enterprise survey data pointing the other way — PwC found 79% of surveyed companies already adopting agents and 66% of those reporting measurable productivity value — sharpening the split between enterprise deployment and consumer indifference. Single-source on the core argument; the full text was not retrievable for verification.