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Every few years, a new category of technology arrives with an irresistible promise. Fewer steps. Less friction. More autonomy. AI agents arrived with exactly that pitch. Describe the outcome, turn the agent loose, and let the system figure out the rest. This is a story about what happened when one of my clients decided to test that promise inside a real production workflow. The results were instructive.
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