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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 | 8485 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
Meta (Score:1)
Is Object Orienting always good? (Score:3)
1. Yes
2. No
3. Only if CowboyNeal does it.
Re: Why is FP good? (Score:1)
1) Because immutable variables reduce bugs
2) Because Object Oriented is a pain in Javascript
2) Because callbacks are fun
3) In Korea only old people use OOP
4) Because FP is theoretically more efficient when I don't profile it
5) It's hip.
Re: (Score:2)
1. Yes
2. No
3. Only if CowboyNeal does it.
2½. Only if orientation in question is North,
I support a drug policy of (Score:5, Interesting)
I support a drug policy of:
No legal marijuana
Medicinal marijuana
Recreational marijuana
Legalization of all drugs
Bring back prohibition
Other
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There is for example XTC, alcohol and nicotine which are all very common drugs, and which also deserve a place in the poll.
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That's his poll suggestion suggestion. Feel free to suggest your own. :)
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XTC is a good one. I thought it had significant long terms health effects on users, but apparently I was wrong [newatlas.com]
LSD and mushrooms are probably good as a category, distinct from the seriously addictive substances like crack, heroine, etc.
Alcohol is covered under the prohibition option.
Personally I am for legalizing all drugs.
The cost of the drug war is too high:
- police vs community
- guns and crime
- mass incarceration
- law enforcement loss of life
- corruption, cartels and gangs outside the us
- money to all t
Answer must be in the form of a question (Score:3)
No, sorry, it's like Jeopardy-- you have to phrase it in the form of a question.
the correct way:
In my opinion, the cost of the drug war is too high because:
( ) police vs community
( ) guns and crime
( ) mass incarceration
( ) law enforcement loss of life
( ) corruption, cartels and gangs outside the us
( ) money to all the wrong people
( ) addicts as criminals rather than patients
( ) wasted resources that can be used elsewhere
( ) Cowboy Neal
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Re: I support a drug policy of (Score:2)
Re: I support a drug policy of (Score:2)
Pizza Friday.
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I find it hilarious that a poll of marijuana-related questions is the only one where the submitter forgot to include any option tags.
What kind of Slashdot polls do you prefer? (Score:5, Interesting)
2. What is your preferred...?
3. Meta / statistical games over choice selection
4. Funny
5. Surreal
6. I don't do polls
7. Anything, as long as there is a Cowboy Neal option
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My favorite so far. A meta-poll that deserves a mod point I never get to give.
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6. I never vote in polls
I think that will be a winner.
I believe bitcoin is (Score:3)
I believe bitcoin is:
A Ponzi scheme / valueless
Valued at the cost of electricity it takes to generate new coins
Valuable due to continued currency for illegal activity
Valuable due to continued currency for legitimate business
A government conspiracy
An alien conspiracy
What is bitcoin?
Re: (Score:2)
How long could you live without modern technology? (Score:2)
C: I was in the cub scouts. I can fish and I've had a garden.
D: I have a BoB, a BoV, an AK47, and God have mercy upon you When TSHTF EOTWAWKI ZOMGZOMBIES.
E: I don't just drink my own piss, I use Cowboy Niel's as a mixer.
Heavier options, since the recreationals flow well (Score:2)
Not sure about the answers, but thinking of a wisdom of crowds thing...
Q: What part of Slashdot needs highest priority for improvements?
Pretty sure my own answer would involve the moderation or the karma or the linkages between them. Or maybe extending the lifetime of the more active stories?
Q: How can Slashdot pay for improvements?
My answer would be whatever led towards a cost-recovery basis and away from advertising. I suppose the Cowboy Neal option would be to wait for him to strike it rich and support S
Re: The new dialog box that keeps appearing (Score:2)
What privacy box?
Slashdot is dying (Score:4, Funny)
1) Too many stories about politics
2) No one comments on the hardcore science topics
3) People have started actually reading the articles
4) lack of Unicode support
5) <encoding not supported in your browser>
6) Not enough stories about politics
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Re: Slashdot is dying (Score:3)
Too few sites are slashdotted today.
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Feature request: Tag filter.
People who are offended by "political" stories can then just filter them out so they don't even appear on their home page.
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Pretty much every comment section is filled with political garbage no matter the subject.
Its probably the biggest influence in the decline of Slashdot.
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Good one. Missing option 7) Cowboy Neal is missing!
Free speech (Score:3)
1) Christianity
2) Buddhism/Islam/Hindu/etc
4) Technology/Open Source
5) Republicans/Democrats
6) Feigned outrage
7) Eat Drink and Be Merry, for Tomorrow we Die
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3) There is no 3
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I work night shift you insensitive clod!
Free software (Score:4, Interesting)
1) Good idea in the past, not working now
2) I don't care, I choose the right tool for the job
3) Free Software is always the right tool
4) In the past I didn't care but I will never choose Oracle again
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5) Does that include Free as in Stolen?
Systemd (Score:3)
1) Best software ever written
2) It works, it does its job
3) poorly written but I can ignore it
4) a serious threat to the Linux ecosystem that needs to be removed
5) The God-Awful spawn of Satan himself, death and destroyer
My Desktop CPU needs no more than (Score:1)
2 cores
4 cores
6 cores
8 cores
12 cores
20 cores
As many cores as can be fit in.
Favorite game (Score:3)
A) FPS
B) RTS
C) tabletop/card
D) RPG
E) MMORPG
F) Platform
G) Mobile/F2P
Re: (Score:2)
H) Trolling on Slashdot
Just Me... (Score:2)
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When the war happens (Score:3)
1) The pedestrians
2) The cars
3) The bicyclists
4) The basement dwellers (neutral)
There was a story I read a long time ago (I think in Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine) that was about a war between pedestrians and drivers. They ended with a truce: pedestrians couldn't carry guns large enough to shoot through bullet-proof glass, and cars were not allowed to have more than two wheels on the sidewalk.
Is it Pronounced "GIF" or "GIF"? (Score:1)
2. GIF as in Girl, Gigahertz
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Chronological History of Computing (Score:1)
1. Pentium, Apple II, Mac Pro, iPhone
2. Apple I, Vic 20, Commodore 64, Amiga, 386, iMac
3. Eniac, iPhone, Core 2 Duo
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2. Apple I, Vic 20, Commodore 64, Amiga, 386, iMac
This is obviously wrong, since 64 bit computing came after the iMac and 386.
I respond to Slashdot's polls: (Score:4, Interesting)
1) Always
2) When I notice them
3) When they're of interest to me
4) Only when Cowboy Neal reminds me to
5) I have never responded to a Slashdot poll in my life
The most likely way to fix slashdot is (Score:3)
2) Make posting as AC more time / captcha intensive to reduce trolling
3) Remove AC commeting
4) Implement a stackexchance style badge and rep tracking
5) Hire better editors
6) Replace the editors with an AI
7) Cowboy Neil
8) All of the above
Re: Roguelikes (Score:2)
Do you have a poll idea for Slashdot? (Score:2)
Do you have a poll idea for Slashdot?
Yes (let us know in the comments)
No
Only for Cowboy Neal
Can your politics hurt you at work? (Score:2)
Can your political beliefs hurt your chance of getting hired, promoted, and socially accepted by coworkers?
1. Depends on the company
2. Depends on the location (ex: San Francisco Bay area)
3. Other
I find the repeated "We value your Privacy" popup (Score:2)
* Reassuring
* Slightly annoying
* WTF - do I have to acknowledged this yet again.
Age Discrimination For The Win! (Score:2)
At what age do you feel a person has become old (obsolete) in your profession?
1) 20-29
2) 30-39
3) 40-49
4) 50-59
5) 60-69
6) 70+
7) 10-19 (aka The San Francisco Option)
Backups? (Score:2)
How far back do you keep backups of your home system?
( ) 1 week
( ) 1 month
( ) 6 months
( ) 1 year
( ) several years
( ) what are backups?
Do one on recursion (Score:2)
Are you using your ISP-provided gateway-router? (Score:2)
1) I use the gateway-router provided by my ISP
2) I use a branded gateway-router not provided by my ISP
3) I use a PC with a distro such as ClearOS for my gateway-router
4) I use a small single-board computer with gateway-router software
5) What is the best way to sharpen my router bits?
How PC are you? (Score:1)
I visit Slashdot from (Score:3)
1. Africa
2. Antarctica
3. Asia
4. Australia
5. Europe
6. North America
7. South America
8. Wherever Cowboy Neal is
How long will this poll remain online? (Score:2)
Question: How long will this poll remain online?
Responses:
Yaz
Are SJW out to (Score:1)
1. Neuter all males.
2. Destroy the comic book and games industry and neuter all males.
3. Push one-sided arguments that pull our society into fascism.
4. There is no option four.
5. Neuter all males and destroy the comic book and games industry.
Dump the poll (Score:2)
Computer Insecurity (Score:2)
Computer Insecurity - why?
1> Users will click on anything
2> Microsoft and closed source are insecure
3> Application Developers aren't paying attention
4> Patches aren't applied
5> This can never be solved
6> Cowboy Neal hasn't heard of Genode yet
Zombies ate my babySitter (Score:1)
Pork (Score:1)
Have you felt global warming at home? (Score:1)
Have a poll asking what poll people want. (Score:2)
Turns out:
92.17% of people want a poll about what poll they might want.
4.03% of people like pole beans
3.80% of people don't have any opinion when poled.