AI agents are a stupid idea. Consider that we’ve had the option to program deterministic agents to handle most of the suggested AI workflows for a long time. Yet we didn’t do it? Why? Because it turned out to be hard. We did not have good data or good APIs for the actions we wanted to take, and we always encountered lots of difficult edge cases.
Yet the AI vendors are proposing that we now try again. This time with stochastic algorithms that we are never quite sure what will do.
Agentic AI means that we take a problem that we could not solve with deterministic programming, and add another problem on top. And that is supposed to be the future? I don’t think so.