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Nothing works automagically. You still have to build in all the operational characteristics that you would for any traditional system. It's deceptively easy to look at some AI agent demos and think "oh, I can replace my team's huge mess of spaghetti code with a few clever AI prompts!" And it may even work for the first couple use cases. But all that code is there for a reason, and eventually it'll have to be reckoned with. Once you get to the point where you're translating all that code directly into the AI prompt and hoping for no hallucinations, you know you've lost the plot.


Then wtf is the point of this?


Now you’re starting to realize, AI has no real purpose except as a natural language processor for ambiguous unstructured inputs.

Anything an AI agent does that is not that, can be done cheaply and deterministically by some code.

If code can replace humans, it can replace AI.


If you're a big software company, not much. If you're a small non-tech business, it could be an easy way to automate some things without hiring a software engineer.


That's the neat part - there is none!




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