Most AI agent demos are designed to do things for me, browse, click, fill, send. I understand the appeal but it’s not what I actually want most of the time. What I want is something closer to having a knowledgeable person who can look at what I’m working on and tell me what they see. Not take over. Not automate. Just observe and respond when I ask. The distinction I keep landing on: assistance means I stay in control and the AI gives me better information to act on. Takeover means the AI acts and I supervise. Those feel like genuinely different products to me even if they use the same underlying technology. I’m not saying one is better in all cases. For certain tasks I’d want full automation. But for most of my daily work I want the first model. Does this distinction resonate, or does it seem like a minor technical difference that doesn’t matter much in practice? submitted by /u/Imaginary_Bake_5820
Originally posted by u/Imaginary_Bake_5820 on r/ArtificialInteligence