I'm increasingly convinced the now standard tech / founder riff on "my laptop is open at home with swarm of agents doing tasks in background" is primarily memetic. Not even that they are doing the thing, or desire to do the thing, but that they desire to be perceived as someone who is doing the thing, someone using all the latest tools, someone who has ascended. Beyond coding tasks and low yield automated cold outbound, any basic probing on why or what tasks are actually being automated tend to lead to various vague and meandering responses (with some notable exceptions). Mostly, it seems, it's narrative, and tinkering around the edges while the VC-subsidized token paradigm holds up.