Are Agents Getting Smarter or Just Better Tooling?
sophiamia1346 · reddit · 2026-08-28
The post poses a core question: Are AI agents actually getting smarter, or are we just getting better at connecting tools to LLMs? While systems are called agents because they can use tools, remember context, and complete multi-step tasks, how much of that is actual intelligence versus simply better orchestration around a language model? The author asks at what point something should be considered a true AI agent.
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