[anon84873628]

Am I not manually instructing the agent to buy a certain product?

What if I set up a cron job to buy a certain product every month - is that not autonomous? What if it is first querying my live toilet paper sticks to make the decision?

[andreybaskov]

Exactly. It's software - `curl` or LLM. It's a function that accepts input and produces output. One is much more sophisticated that the other, but it's made out of the same machine instructions, there is no magic.

What's the criteria that makes one function "autonomous" and the other one "manual"? I feel it really boils down to this.