Ask HN: If agentic AI is the future, why is every startup shipping a dashboard?

[ATechGuy]

There's a lot of talk about agentic systems that AI can take actions, run workflows, and operate autonomously. However, when I look at AI startups, most of them seem to be building dashboards: analytics panels, control screens, monitoring tools.

If the goal is autonomous agents, why are we still shipping dashboards? Is this a trust issue, a sales issue, or something deeper about how companies adopt new tech?

Curious what you think.

[XCSme]

I think the goal, at least for now, is to simply let the AI do the work and humans should only monitor the end results, thus the dashboards.

I have the same debated working on my self-hosted analytics platform[0], where I am torn between implementing more features to build better dashboards and working on the AI features that simply generate insights and crunch numbers, so you won't even have to look at a dashboard.

That being said, people simply like seeing numbers go up...

[0]: https://www.uxwizz.com

[ATechGuy]

Thanks for your insights!

QQ: does uxwizz also show AI agents visiting websites? have you seen traffic from AI agents?