Andrej Karpathy thinks AI agents are useful in specific settings and says he would use them selectively in those settings.

“it and that's the agents um i do feel like the agents work in very specific settings and i would use them in specific settings but again these are all tools available to you and you have to like learn what they what they're good at and what they're not good at and when to use them so the agents are actually pretty good for example if you're doing boilerplate stuff boilerplate code that's like just cop you know just copy paste stuff they're very good at that they're very good at stuff that occurs very often in the internet”