Unpopular opinion on Reddit: most AI agents are just overcomplicated chatbots
Charming_Cod_2910 · reddit · 2026-11-14
The author argues half the "autonomous" agent setups he sees just loop forever or hallucinate, while a simple 10-line Python script with a direct API call does the same job reliably. He genuinely asks: when is an agent actually better than a deterministic script?
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