Breaking the AI Chatbox: How Berkeley Students Built Real Autonomous Agents

Breaking the AI Chatbox: How Berkeley Students Built Real Autonomous Agents Every AI demo looks the same. A chat window, a text prompt, a response streamed character by character. The chat interface has become the default mental model for interacting with AI. It is also a trap. It reduces the most powerful technology in a generation to a typing interface that trains you to ask questions instead of building solutions. Last semester, a group of Berkeley CS students noticed this trap. They were...