Post #1146621

2026-04-13 07:09 UTC

Microslop exec floats the idea that companies should be required to buy additional software licenses for each AI agent “All of those embodied agents are seat opportunities,” Jha said, envisioning organizations with more agents than humans — each effectively a user that must pay for a software license, or “seat” in industry lingo. A company with 20 employees might buy 20 Microsoft 365 licenses today. If each employee gets five AI agents, and the workforce shrinks to 10 people, that could still mean 50 paid seats. 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.

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@V0ldek@awful.systems 2026-04-14 11:56

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. 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.

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@Jayjader@jlai.lu 2026-04-14 07:22

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!

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@Soyweiser@awful.systems 2026-04-13 17:40

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 ...

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@gerikson@awful.systems 2026-04-13 08:59

JFC at least wait until you have a de-facto monopoly before musing about extracting the rents! This is capitalism 101.

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@zogwarg@awful.systems 2026-04-13 07:48

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!

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@istewart@awful.systems 2026-04-13 16:31

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"

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