Redditor asks if agent workflows are more burden than relief: 3 hours of babysitting vs. doing the task manually twice
erdematar · reddit · 2026-09-06
A Reddit post sparked discussion by questioning whether agentic workflows actually save time: demos show multi-agent frameworks researching, coding, and deploying apps hands-free, but in practice the author spent three hours setting one up locally only to watch the agent loop infinitely trying to read a single text file. Between debugging prompt chains and fixing tool definitions, they could have done the task manually twice. They ask whether anyone has kept an autonomous setup running for real daily work for more than a week without crashing.
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