Simple Scripts Outperform Unreliable AI Agents Says Engineer
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The tokenmaxxing culture is absolutely out of hand. You don't need an agent for everything. In fact, I'm 99% sure you don't need an agent for 99% of the problems you need to solve. Good engineering principles still apply. Simplicity still wins. A regular, boring ol' script that works every time is 1000 times better than a fancy agent that works sometimes. We need common sense back.
The tokenmaxxing culture is absolutely out of hand. You don't need an agent for everything. In fact, I'm 99% sure you don't need an agent for 99% of the problems you need to solve. Good engineering principles still apply. Simplicity still wins. A regular, boring ol' script that works every time is 1000 times better than a fancy agent that works sometimes. We need common sense back.