The chatbot-to-agent shift felt abstract until I watched my own setup evolve. Started with ask-AI-get-answer workflows. Then wired Claude Code into overnight builds. Now I wake up to deployed apps, git commits, social posts - work that happened while I slept. The interface disappeared entirely. That's the real tell that we've crossed into something different. Chatbots needed you present to prompt them.

Agents don't. The software stock crashes make more sense through this lens - you don't need the app if the agent can do the job directly. I wrote about what actually running this looks like: thoughts.jock.pl/p/my-a…