The biggest mistake companies make with agents: one generalist trying to do everything
annetgriffin · x · 2026-08-28
The author argues the biggest mistake companies make building agents is creating one agent that tries to do everything, or overly generalized subagents with no grounding in the core goal.
The right approach: understand the core outcome first, decompose how that outcome gets achieved, build specialized agents for each part, then compose them for the main task. "It's not magic — it's just a good understanding of how work actually gets done, with AI on top."
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