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- By the end of 2026, how useful do you think agentic/multi-agent AI systems will actually be in your daily work or personal projects? Posted on March 11th, 2026 | 18363 votes
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- By the end of 2026, how useful do you think agentic/multi-agent AI systems will actually be in your daily work or personal projects? Posted on March 11th, 2026 | 40 comments
Good wording. (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Good wording. (Score:4, Funny)
Cancerous blight (Score:2)
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Weyland or Yutani?
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7-11, formerly A&P, soon to be Lucky Dragon.
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I work for the French Government and its all the same. We are continually going out of business but our real business has little to do with our official business so business keeps plodding along.
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So how is the Pope doing these days?
Heh! The company that employs me is merely a couple of centuries old; not as ancient as the Catholic Church.
And despite being capriciously malevolent on a regular basis, it's not nearly in the same class as any of the major organized religions when it comes to sheer evil, cynical brutality, overt perversion, and twisted vindictiveness.
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Mines almost 200 years old..I'll be impressed if it makes it to its bicentennial though.
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Mines almost 200 years old..I'll be impressed if it makes it to its bicentennial though.
Advancing technology may allow you to extract more than you thought possible in the past. Or tap it out more quickly. Depends on what you're digging for.
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Working at Cambridge University?
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Mine won't last that long. While probably 160 years old, my employer only makes food. That makes it nearly impossible for it to fail right now (everyone has to eat), but it also means it will end when our roboti
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Verizon, it is a cancerous blight upon the Earth, and will probably survive until the heat death of the Universe..
There... FTFY.
Re:Good wording. (Score:5, Insightful)
It seems Yoda worked hard on the wording of this week's poll...
Re:Good wording. (Score:5, Funny)
Worked hard on poll's wording Yoda did, it seems
There, fixed that for you.
After 900 years... (Score:2)
for such a wise Jedi, you'd think the little bugger could figure out basic grammar eh?
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why? If native speakers don't get it right, why should Yoda?
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[_] Yes
[_] "Hello, my name is Peggy, I answer your question, no, not nyet, T'ank you, have nice day, dah!"
In Soviet Russia, Pole (not poll) reads YOU!
Re:Good wording. (Score:4, Funny)
Way to word the question. I only had to read it ten times to realize what I was supposed to comprehend.
Care to enlighten the rest of us? I'm still trying to figure it out.
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Way to word the question. I only had to read it ten times to realize what I was supposed to comprehend.
You must be new here. I understood exactly what it meant the first time. You see, I've been reading here on /. for a few years, and that means I have lots of experience reading terrible grammar.
Their are a lot /.ers who loose they're way around a keyboard. You can accept to read allot of bad grammar hear.
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the scene [vrya.net]
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It does look as if the questions was written by somebody with English as a second language.
However the fact that four categories were for companies lasting up to 5 years, one for over five years, and one for unemployed made me think it had been written by an American. There are enough long term stable European companies and organisations to make the question better suited to dividing the choices by decades or perhaps centuries. If you work for the university sector you could be working for a 700 year old or
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No offense to anyone from Europe, but it reads like it was written by a euro.
Well, if 1 euro coins could write...
Obligatory missing option (Score:5, Insightful)
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Additional obligatory missing option (Score:2)
Cowboy Neal's Missing Poll Options Inc. will never go out of business!
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It's becoming a reasonable question these days, how much longer will the world economy stay afloat?
The status-quo at least seems destined for the dustbin one of these days. For example, how much longer will the US Dollar last as a global currency? (Not to mention climate change, resource constraints, political friction, etc..) Sure the world will have SOME sort of economy, people always do. But what will it look like and how painful will the transition be? I don't think anybody knows yet.
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I've lived on a small farm in a little hamlet with its own rainwater collection system.
Although, thanks to interesting government grant allocation, it had a good broadband connection.
If society implodes, maybe the broadband connection would be lost.
*shrug*
Re:Obligatory missing option (Score:4, Funny)
With zero revenue!
Which puts you ahead of a lot of small businesses.
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If he had said zero profits. Zero revenue is only for R&D gambits that haven't yet sold a single product, not your typical small business.
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With zero revenue!
Which puts you ahead of a lot of small businesses.
And quite a few big ones.
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u mad?
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No, that is not implied. Most entrepreneurs have negative net incoming.
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Vote carefully! (Score:2)
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lifespan? (Score:2)
My present employer is a healthy 40-ish man, I'm pretty sure he will survive more than 5 years, but is unlikely to outlast the sun...
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Mine is a certain famous animated rodent. Not only will he outlast the sun, he still won't have entered the public domain.
My employer has already gone under (Score:3)
Now I suppose -2 years counts as "fewer than six months from now" but it just doesn't have the same ring.
Fukushima (Score:2)
Engrish (Score:2)
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There is no CowboyNeal; vote, or vote not.
less than 6 months.. (Score:2)
We are closing our doors the end of this month (4 days from now)
2-5 years (Score:2)
Tending toward infinity (Score:2)
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We have removal firms older than that here in Scotland
http://www.shoreporters.com/index.php/ [shoreporters.com]
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How long you've been around doesn't equate to how long you will be around.
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How long you've been around doesn't equate to how long you will be around.
Of course not, but after half a millennium or so you start to suspect it's not in any immediate risk of shutting down.
...but where I'll be, on the other hand. (Score:2)
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Dammit Rodney, I knew you were a traitor. YOU'RE FIRED!
Sincerely,
Rodneys Boss
Siemens Corp
Everywhere else before here is gone (Score:2)
I've worked at six places before my current employer, all in jobs using computers. One company wasn't a computer-oriented business but needed a computer guy on staff. Every one of those companies closed, and I worked at those companies in a five year span. My current employer has been such for almost ten years now.
Employer in hospice (Score:3)
Self-employed scientific consultant. Been battling cancer for seven years (age 37), now in a mode of hospice care with widespread tumors growing rapidly. Don't know by what mechanism things will end, but it's likely to happen in the next six months.
One thing that bothers me as I prepare for that end: I am the sole maintainer for a few small open source projects. Right now I pay my former university for web hosting. Is there a good way to set up a host for after my death (several years prepaid or some sort of archival service)?
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Sucks about the cancer. For what it's worth, good luck.
As for the hosting, drop me an email: pete @ [slashdot username] .com ; I might be able to help.
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See:
http://www.unmaintained-free-software.org/wiki/Main_Page [unmaintain...ftware.org]
Subsidized (Score:2)
I'm working for a scientific institute that is funded 100% by taxpayers' money. Thank god I have an open-ended contract, because we already got the "the budget is getting tighter" lecture from management. The next couple of years will probably be a lot more sober.
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WTF is an "open-ended contract"?
Sounds like "we'll pay you until we don't."
Contractors are the first ones out the door whenever the suits come around with the Budget shovel.
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The next couple of years will probably be a lot more sober.
There goes your productivity.
I'm unemployed... (Score:2)
...you insensitive clod!
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The track record isn't bad (Score:2)
Mine has been around for 800 years [cam.ac.uk] now. Hopefully it'll last at least 25 more until I retire.
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Oh, a startup, eh?
Signed,
You Know. [ox.ac.uk]
16 years ago, I would have answered differently (Score:2)
16 years ago, I took a job with a firm that had then been in existence for almost 130. It had been acquired and sold, but remained an independent division -- employees always considered themselves part of the company, not the parent. It was always older than the parent corps, and furthermore, the employees went with the division when it got sold, and were almost never transferred to another division in the parent companies. So everyone thought of it as its own entity.
But it was never a good fit for any of t
Interesting 5y is the biggest number before infini (Score:2)
It's telling that 5 years is the biggest number before infinity. I don't expect my employer to last forever, but they've been around 375 years, and I expect that they'll be around for another hundred or so at minimum.
5 years, hopefully. (Score:2)
Let's take a look at all of my employers:
High-school temp job: 'the phone company', bought out and renamed 2-5 years.
Post-high-school job: fueling airliners at the airport, the company still exists, so >5 years.
Community-college job: data entry at a small subdivision of a bigger company, subdivision closed within 4 years of my hiring, so 2-5 years.
College jobs: small computer shop tech: company folded within 6 months
small airline airplane window washer (yes, really): hangar burned down within a year, so
we just got bought: does a company survive? (Score:2)
Since TI just bought us, and the deal's supposed to close in 6 months, I put 'less than six months' although I rather hope I'll still be working on the same project, with the same people, for at least another year or so.
Tangentially, polls no longer show up on the main page when I'm logged in, just when I'm browsing as AC: anyone know how to get them to show up?
My boss is a Christian (Score:2)
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The most fitting irony would be if God did give people what they wished for, and eternity was everything they thought it would be. Alas, my sig beckons.
I am not only "self employed" ... (Score:2)
At least to 75 (Score:2)
He seems to live a pretty healthy lifestyle.
Deep Water Horizon (Score:2)
One flight away (Score:2)
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Too Big to Fall Out of the Sky.
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I've been wondering why my toenail clippings have been behaving like a bunch of daffodils driving by a movie theater...in SEPTEMBER!
Re:One of the great certainties. (Score:5, Interesting)
But even the undertaker will run out of work.
Charon by Lord Dunsany
Charon leaned forward and rowed. All things were one with his weariness.
It was not with him a matter of years or of centuries, but of wide floods of time, and an old heaviness and a pain in the arms that had become for him part of the scheme that the gods had made and was of a piece with Eternity.
If the gods had even sent him a contrary wind it would have divided all time in his memory into two equal slabs.
So grey were all things always where he was that if any radiance lingered a moment among the dead, on the face of such a queen perhaps as Cleopatra, his eyes could not have perceived it.
It was strange that the dead nowadays were coming in such numbers. They were coming in thousands where they used to come in fifties. It was neither Charon's duty nor his wont to ponder in his grey soul why these things might be. Charon leaned forward and rowed.
Then no one came for a while. It was not unusual for the gods to send no one down from Earth for such a space. But the gods knew best.
Then one man came alone. And the little shade sat shivering on a lonely bench and the great boat pushed off. Only one passenger; the gods knew best.
And great and weary Charon rowed on and on beside the little, silent, shivering ghost.
And the sound of the river was like a mighty sigh that Grief in the beginning had sighed among her sisters, and that could not die like the echoes of human sorrow failing on earthly hills, but was as old as time and the pain in Charon's arms.
Then the boat from the slow, grey river loomed up to the coast of Dis and the little, silent shade still shivering stepped ashore, and Charon turned the boat to go wearily back to the world. Then the little shadow spoke, that had been a man.
"I am the last," he said.
No one had ever made Charon smile before, no one before had ever made him weep.
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Re:Government employee... (Score:4, Interesting)
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The military all come from the working class nowadays. I'm hoping they will realize that, and not side with the owning class oligarchs.
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Hell yes, he'll be at the winning side. (Whatever it is.)
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unexpected
Bullshit.
Once you got to Iraq and took it over, took down Saddam Hussein's government, then what are you going to put in its place? That's a very volatile part of the world, and if you take down the central government of Iraq, you could very easily end up seeing pieces of Iraq fly off: part of it, the Syrians would like to have to the west, part of it -- eastern Iraq -- the Iranians would like to claim, they fought over it for eight years. In the north you've got the Kurds, and if the Kurds spin loose and join with the Kurds in Turkey, then you threaten the territorial integrity of Turkey.
It's a quagmire if you go that far and try to take over Iraq.
Dick Cheney in '94 [youtube.com]
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Yes another reason why the Bush administration has no excuse for the way they ran the war in Iraq.
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Re:YAOMO (Yet Another Obligatory Missing Option) (Score:4, Funny)
I'd heard the Republicans were using computers now. Good to hear it confirmed in the wild.
Re:YAOMO (Yet Another Obligatory Missing Option) (Score:5, Interesting)
Before the Republican horde (all four of them on Slashdot) come swinging the mod hammer, I should issue a disclaimer: I'm more republican than I am democrat. It's just that when I picture shambling, brain-eating zombies, I associate them more with republicans. Slow-moving, consuming those who can't escape them, and they look old and dried up. Democrats are more like the "28 Days Later" zombies: rabid, fast moving, attacking anything that moves with a ferocity you have to see to believe.
So you're all mindless killing machines destroying everything you can get your hands on, you just do it in different ways, for different reasons.
NOW you can mod me down :)
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+1, Insightful
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Montgomery: "It's worse than horrible because a zombie has no will of his own. You see them sometimes walking around blindly with dead eyes, following orders, not knowing what they do, not caring."
Lawrence: "You mean like Democrats?"
(Bob Hope in The Ghost Breakers, 1940)
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Suddenly Republicans hoarding the shotguns makes a lot more sense ;)
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Agreed. I spent a year not working shortly after the dot-com bust. I had a little cash from the boom, so I wasn't taking shitty offers or doing drug deals to get by. I looked at it as a foretaste of retirement. And I really liked it. But the trends in assets and expenses and life expectancy were obvious, so when a reasonable opportunity showed up I took it. Every couple of years, I take a few months and disappear, though. Makes me actually want to go get back to work. We've really screwed ourselves
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Our sun is mostly stable. At some point the tiny rate of decline in its mass will result in a state where it inflates itself, fairly quickly, into a smallish red giant. Shortly after that, certain processes will decline rapidly and it will collapse, engage in a supernova, and leave behind the remnants of its core in the form of a white dwarf. (It's too small to ever be a blue giant or leave behind a black hole; and it's too big to be a brown dwarf now or decrease casually enough in size to become one.)
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