Jumping in here, frankly I hate the trend of calling every type of automation intelligence.

Most "AI" is really an optimization algorithm in software tools, same as its always been. This really isnt anything new, aside from adding a chatbot / MCP interface to the same tools.

When a Big Killing Robot comes to murder you be sure to always call it BKR and don't discredit yourself by calling it AI.

That's a bit hyperbolic when we're all just posting on HN

Talk about moving the goalposts. Pray tell, exactly what must an LLM do before you're willing to consider it AI? Be specific, otherwise you're just woo-mongering.

Everyone here is talking about LLMs, why bother calling them something else

I feel like LLMs refers to a model that for a given message responds with its own message.

And I feel like AI agents (powered by some LLM) are qualitatively something else.