why are AI agents everywhere? and how useful are they, actually?

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<p>AI agents can do stuff for you: like organize meetings or, accidentally delete your hard drive.<strong> </strong>Is this the future Silicon Valley wants for us? To get a preview of what it might be like, Evan Ratliff launched a startup with almost exclusively AI employees and documented the whole thing in his podcast <em>Shell Game</em>. Dexter talks with Evan about what it feels like to have a robot apologize for interrupting your lunch, why Clawdbot and Moltbook weren&rsquo;t as groundbreaking as you might think, and why he thinks fellow journalists should consider using AI agents.&nbsp;</p> <p>Hit us up: <a href="mailto:killswitch@kaleidoscope.nyc">killswitch@kaleidoscope.nyc</a>, or @killswitchpod and @dexdigi on IG or Bluesky.</p> <p>Links:&nbsp;</p> <ul> <li aria-level="1">Shell Game on Apple Podcasts: <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/shell-game/id1753117762">https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/shell-game/id1753117762</a>&nbsp;</li> <li aria-level="1">kill switch on YouTube: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@killswitch_pod">https://www.youtube.com/@killswitch_pod</a></li> </ul><p>See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.</p>