Who Is an AI Agent Actually For? A User-Type Field Guide (opens in new tab)

"AI agent" is one of those terms that has earned the right to mean almost anything. Ask a grandmother using a voice assistant, a QA engineer writing test harnesses, and a software architect designing orchestration layers, you'll get three definitions that barely overlap. That's not a problem with the term. That's a feature of how the technology actually lands in the world. Your relationship to an AI agent is shaped entirely by what you need it to do. And what you need it to do is shaped by wh...