The good news: agentic is leading to lots of new apps! The bad news: ain’t nobody adopting them. Slop FTL [for the loss]

Gary Marcus discusses a paradox in the agentic AI market: while developers are creating numerous new applications powered by agentic AI systems, these applications are failing to achieve meaningful user adoption. Marcus uses "slop FTL" to characterize what he views as the disappointing real-world outcomes despite the proliferation of new agent-based tools.

Source: Gary Marcus (X) | 2026-06-06