Hard but also fun

That's a very good point. I think this technology is better used for other purposes than mimicking end users. It might be powerful in systems research and economics, but when it comes to user research the applications are more limited

I'll be doing a second part on this soon laying out some ways in which I think agents can be incorporated into research processes

The buttons and zippers

But other languages don't have such established patterns and they usually either translate from English or come up with creative and sometimes odd solutions. Not really related to your point but I think it's a super interesting phenomenon