What Rui Carmo thinks about AI agents

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Portuguese engineer and blogger; writes Tao of Mac, a personal site with entries going back to 2003, on Apple hardware, Linux, home labs, programming and AI coding agents. His Bluesky profile lists him as a principal at Microsoft.

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1. 30 Sept 2026

   Our readingThe current state of AI agents is at a plateau of decreasing returns where model intelligence increases but useful outcomes have not gelled.

   Their wordsI feel we're coming to another plateau of decreasing returns, because even as models keep getting (arguably) smarter, what you can do with them beyond flashy demos hasn't really gelled into useful outcomes yet.

   ↗Sep 30th 2026 · 2 min readtaoofmac.com 1st of 3 in this piece