Comment by cootsnuck

They absolutely need deterministic tools. What you just described is exactly how the current popular AI agents work. They use "harnesses", which to me is just a rebranding of what we have known all along about building useful and reliable software...composable orchestrated systems with a variety of different pieces selected based on their capabilities and constraints being glued together for specific outcomes.

It just feels like for some reason this is all being relearned with LLMs. I guess shortcuts have always been tempting. And the idea of a "digital panacea" is too hard to resist.