I don't know if that is what gp and above is talking about. "Agents" are the kind of thing/word that helps to paper over the very fact that these things only work because of huge amount of humans in-the-loop in the outset (that is, you know, labor). Agents help us believe that LLM's can do everything for us, even bootstrap themselves, but, what the above thread is about is that, really, what you get out correlates only to what you put in in the first place.