{"slug": "using-ai-agents-for-disliked-tasks", "title": "Using AI Agents for Disliked Tasks", "summary": "A developer reports greater success and enjoyment using agentic AI with small local models, such as Gemma 4 E4B via llama-cpp and an MCP server, for disliked tasks like website management, compared to using larger models for coding. The author suggests that agentic AI's real benefit is minimizing time spent on unpleasant tasks, and that it may be less useful for enjoyable activities.", "body_md": "I seem to be having more success (and fun) using **agentic AI** (locally with **small models**) than I have had with trying to use larger models for editing code. I think there is a major reason why: I tend to enjoy coding (at least at times), and I tend to **dislike managing websites**.\n\nIt makes sense that using agentic AI—running `llama-cpp`\n\nwith a small local model like Gemma 4 E4B and an MCP server—is more enjoyable than doing an **unpleasant** task. So it seems like the real benefit here might be **minimizing** the amount of time I do unpleasant things.\n\nSome people might **dislike coding** (and I don't blame them) but I have always found it to be **interesting**—although exhausting mentally. However running command lines to update files and such on a website has always been **boring** and rote for me.\n\nIt is probably worth putting effort into trying to use agentic AI (like building an **MCP server** for local use on `llama-cpp`\n\n) with **tasks** that are **unenjoyable**. For things that one finds enjoyable, agentic AI may have less utility.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/using-ai-agents-for-disliked-tasks", "canonical_source": "https://www.dotnetperls.com/2026_7_31_using-ai-agents-disliked-tasks", "published_at": "2026-07-31 07:00:00+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-31 15:39:12.585153+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-agents", "ai-tools"], "entities": ["llama-cpp", "Gemma 4 E4B", "MCP server"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/using-ai-agents-for-disliked-tasks", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/using-ai-agents-for-disliked-tasks.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/using-ai-agents-for-disliked-tasks.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/using-ai-agents-for-disliked-tasks.jsonld"}}