Comment by petesergeant

It depends what you mean by agent, first of all, but I’m going to assume you mean what I’ve called “narrow agency” here[0]: “[an LLM] that can _plan and execute_ tasks that happen outside the chat window“.

That humans make mistakes all the time is the reason we encode business logic in code and automate systems. An “if” statement is always going to be faster, more reliable, and have better observability than a human or LLM-based reasoning agent.

0: https://sgnt.ai/p/agentic-ai-bad-definitions/