kind of funny tokens don't prompt and steer themselves. it almost as if the value still lies with the human holding the tool.

They kinda do though, that's sort of how agents work. At least that's how it's always felt to me.

what is doing the steering is the weights of the words that came before in context. there is no agent or agency. if your problems need median effort and are well represented in shape in the corpus then agents may work well. true inovation is impossible without careful prompting, wherein the agent becomes an associative engine (kind of a smart search engine) and you the human become the manager of the process.