Are AI Agents real production success or mostly hype?

whatsnextintech007 · reddit · 2026-08-19

The author believes AI excels as a copilot across roles like dev, sales, and research, but questions how many "fully autonomous AI agents" are actually successful in production today.

They seek real-world examples of agents running with minimal human intervention to save costs or generate profit. The author doubts if agents remain truly "autonomous" once guardrails, approvals, monitoring, and exception handling are added. Currently, dev work seems to be one area where agents are already quite strong.

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