Your AI agent has zero social intelligence — and that's a design problem, not a training problem
A pointed critique argues that current AI agents fail not because they can't reason, but because they lack basic social grounding — the ability to understand context, norms, and the implicit expectations of human interaction.
@lbulik posted a sharp critique that's resonating with agent builders: current AI agents have "zero social intelligence," suffering from what they call a "grounding failure." The argument isn't about reasoning capability — it's about the absence of understanding context, social norms, and unstated expectations that humans navigate automatically.
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