AI chatbots give wrong answers; AI agents act on them — place human checkpoints
alifcoder · x · 2026-11-14
Andrew (@heyandrewai) draws the key distinction between chatbots and agents: a chatbot's wrong answer is just misinformation, but an agent that browses, edits files, and sends messages can turn a wrong answer into a real action.
The point isn't to avoid agents, but to know where mistakes become real actions — and to insert human approval checkpoints between drafting and executing (Draft → Approval → Send).
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