Artificial Intelligence rave and wave decluttering - I have been sitting on this thought about Artificail Intelligence and how we've and still adapting to this big step in the journey of creating a near human level form of intelligence, i argue that we've definitely created a knowledge bank greater than one any human would be capabale of.
The Year We Stopped Building a Tool and Started Building an Operator. As we close out 2025, I want to share the most important lesson we learned this year building OnBuddy, and why it's changed everything about how we think about workplace technology.
Despite claims from Big AI tech execs, we're nowhere near Artificial General Intelligence. Current LLMs excel at pattern matching but lack the core traits that defines General Intelligence. True AGI requires more than benchmark scores - it demands cross-domain environmental success, robust adaptation to novelty, and self-directed learning. While we're beginning to see early steps toward agentic systems through MCPs tool calling, these are brute-force approximations for a semblance of agency. The path to AGI will require AI systems that operate with high agency across unfamiliar domains with minimal supervision, a capability that remains fundamentally out of reach for today's LLMs.
I recently wrote about how [ProteusAI is moving from building a tool to an Operator](https://medium.com/@walecloud/2025-reflection-we-stopped-building-a-tool-and-started-building-an-operator-26a55f3da9ac) and OnBuddy being the Autonomous Worker Operator that the world truly needed to get past the frenzy of merely AI assisted softwares and tools.
