Ambient agents premise lands and is thought provoking.

But the more you read the article the more the point is lost. The prescriptions given aren't ambient?

    CLI: a good command-line interface makes it easy for an agent loop to interact with your system and saves tokens.
    Specs: Declarative configs, schemas, manifests. Artifacts that state the desired outcome, not the steps.
    Reconciliation loops: you declare the target state, let the system continuously converge toward it. Detect if something drifts.

The gripe seems to be specifically with being able to chat with the AI. Yes, ideally the AI just knows to do stuff. But the chat interface is also the reason every Bob and Sarah has chatGPT in their pocket. It's also just growing pains.

yeah and the reconciliation pattern only really works when you can actually read current state. half of what agents do is side effects you can't observe. slack messages, payments, emails. agent times out, retries,customer gets billed twice. article kinda glosses over that.