←back to thread

AI agents: Less capability, more reliability, please

(www.sergey.fyi)
423 points serjester | 1 comments | 31 Mar 25 14:45 UTC | HN request time: 0.21s | source
Show context
bhu8 ◴[31 Mar 25 16:15 UTC] No.43536700[source]▶
I have been thinking about the exact same problem for a while and was literally hours away from publishing a blogpost on the subject.

+100 on the footnote:

> agents or workflows?

Workflows. Workflows, all the way.

The agents can start using these workflows once they are actually ready to execute stuff with high precision. And, by then we would have figured out how to create effective, accurate and easily diagnozable workflows, so people will stop complaining about "I want to know what's going on inside the black box".

replies(2): >>43537569 #>>43539560 #
1. DebtDeflation ◴[31 Mar 25 20:28 UTC] No.43539560[source]▶
I've been building workflows with "AI" capability inserted where appropriate since 2016. Mostly customer service chatbots.

99.9% of real world enterprise AI use cases today are for workflows not agents.

However, "agents" are being pushed because the industry needs a next big thing to keep the investment funding flowing in.

The problem is that even the best reasoning models available today don't have the actual reasoning and planning capability needed to build truly autonomous agents. They might in a year. Or they might not.