What to build instead of AI agents

A key thing we may be forced to admit someday is that AI agents are really just expensive temporary glue that we use to build services quickly until we have cheaper hard coded functions developed once the AI agent gives us sufficient experience with the scope of the problem domain.

An interesting take, only if the stakes are low when the decisions are wrong. I'm not confident to have an LLM taking decisions for a customer or me. I'd rather have it suggest things to customers, sugesstive actions and some useful insights that user may have overlooked.

Can you imagine a bank taking this approach? Sorry, we didn't have enough time to build a true ledger, and now the AI says you have no money.

This is happening across lots of industries right now. Some are ok like the car company that had to sell the car at the insanely low price their agent promised but some are terrible like the United healthcare "90% wrong when denying coverage" one or the "who should be fired" prompt from doge.