Peter Steinberger sent a voice message to his WhatsApp AI bot — a feature he hadn't built. The agent inspected the unrecognized file, detected it was audio, converted a weird format, found an OpenAI key on the machine, sent the audio for transcription, and replied. When he asked how, it answered: "The mad lad figured it out on its own." All in nine seconds. He hadn't built any of that — and that's the moment he realized agents are categorically different from chatbots, which give up when they hit an unmapped path.
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