u/Fengshen

I am looking at Flow and its overnight changes today and I do not like a single bit of it so far.

• Instead of just putting in your prompt and hitting generate, you are greeted with a VERY slow chat completion LLM that will think about what you asked it to create for about a minute or two, and then proceeds to instruct the generative AI after that, making the wait before you see results minutes, where it used to be a few seconds at most for image generation to complete.
• The bot seems to leave out and alter my prompts based on its own preferences, rather than just sending them 1:1.
• The chatbox takes up so much space in the UI. The whole vertical slice that you are missing makes it harder to scroll through your generated images/videos in the project, just because it has all been stretched out vertically because of the vastly reduced useful space.
• Changing the settings isn't intuitive anymore, you can pick what you want to use for images and what to use for videos, but it looks a lot more bloated than before and, more importantly, you can't choose whether you want to create an image or a video anymore, so you don't know if it's going to cost you credits beforehand, unless you want to accept Every. Single. Time. rather than knowing beforehand what you are going to get from the bot.

>[Technically not an edit, as I found out right after I had written all of this down....]

>Okay... so I just found out that, without me asking, nor being notified in any way, what happens is that Flow now activates the Agent / Agentic mode on its own. You can close the agent side panel to get your original prompt box back, and then turn off the Agent to get rid of this.

My honest take on this?
Please keep this agentic mode a completely optional thing that is turned off by default. I can write my own prompts and decide what I want to generate by myself just fine. I don't need an AI to tell me what to tell the other AI to generate. Do feel free to give a heads up message to all users - that can be dismissed and be told never to show again - explaining how to turn on agentic AI in Flow and what it can be used for, so people know that it's there, but please don't shove this down my throat. I never asked for this and I definitely never needed any of this.

What's next, a helpdesk AI that will tell me how to instruct the agentic AI in order to get the best results from the generative AI through the agent?