Two AI Agent Pitfalls: Over-Splitting and Blind Trust in 'Agents Will Handle It'
Practitioners warn against over-splitting AI agents into planner, researcher, and evaluator roles—like microservices over-engineering, it raises debugging difficulty, latency, and error rates. They also call 'the AI agent will handle it' the most expensive lie, since agents can't cope with unseen edge cases or sudden upstream API format changes without proper architecture.
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