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Microslop exec floats the idea that companies should be required to buy additional software licenses for each AI agent
Also, it's apparently enough for an LLM endpoint to be paired with an email inbox to be considered an "embodied agent", words mean nothing.
JFC at least wait until you have a de-facto monopoly before musing about extracting the rents! This is capitalism 101.
Ah right, I need to get a 365 license for word, which comes with a free copilot agent, who needs a 365 license for its copy of word, which comes with a free copilot agent, who needs a ...
Now that we've got the concept of recursive per-seat licensing established, allow me to invite you to contemplate the possibility of the "licensing macro"
Ahh sh*t if all my rent-seeking employee-reducing dreams come true, i'll lose money on my product subscriptions rents! Quick! I should come up with bullshit that will solve everything!
It's ludicrous to pay taxes on the wealth your robots make, but it's savvy business to charge each software-delimited robot as a separate being - just like charging per-cpu-core was!
This is a very interesting glimpse into the managerial class' psyche. A person is their email address. Very simple. Why would you need more than that.
Do you get a refund when an "agent" inevitably blows out its context window and starts emitting deranged output, or does that automatically get rolled over into starting up the next "agent"