Agents as Trojan horses: the hype is finally getting teams to automate old workflows
curiousinsprd · reddit · 2026-09-06
An interesting observation from r/whatever: the biggest indirect effect of all the AI agent talk inside organizations may not be agents themselves. Teams are re-examining workflows that ran the same way for years, and many end up building plain deterministic automations with n8n, Zapier, and similar tools instead of deploying any agent.
The author frames the agent idea as a "trojan horse" — even when agents aren't the right fit, the conversation is what gets automation initiatives started. They're asking whether others see the same pattern: agent-sparked projects that ship as boring, reliable workflows.
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