I have not looked at Manus but I could imagine that it uses the highly Specialized program for you and fills in the forms based on data it found.

Sure sure sure... or it hallucinates that it sent your tax forms when it didn't. Or it makes an OOPSIE DAISY with some numbers that you overlook. Or or or...

You might not be the target audience or you might not understand the tech yet. These agents are for replacing things like Mechanical Turk and data entry jobs at first.

A couple of years ago, every company added a shitty chat bot to their website. Imagine that without adding a ton of complicated integrations and writing a ton of rules, you can make this chat bot actually become somewhat useful. That would take a ton of work away from customer contact centers.

Imagine that software testing can be as simple as writing: "Create 50 concurrent users that are signing up to my Android app." In stead of writing a shit ton of tests in Robot Framework that need to be updated for every change of the code.

There's some real benefit in AI Agents, even in the short term... But it might not be for end users.

But people are wary of it, they know about the enshitification to come, and it will be horrible beyond comprehension. Those products of the past, have burned right through all layers of trust - and there just is none left, to invest into that dystopian vision of a future where a robot butler wakes you in the morning with advertisement jingles and disregards your shopping list to buy the sponsoring brands.

And all those cooperation, that are supposed to buy AI labor- they know that those mafia companies trying to get in via subscription, will be the worst union of all. Software eating the worlds bread butter indeed.Subscription is up, and its now (costOfEarnings -1$)

People can see the takeover and the faces of it for what they really are and boy is it ugly.