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Most "AI Agents" Are Just Flowcharts With Good Marketing

Few months ago, I was looking at some vendor pitches and internal project ideas that everyone was calling "smart AI agents." When I looked under the hood at the system logs, I saw the exact same simple setup almost everywhere: a basic flowchart that asks an AI to write a piece of text, and then sends that text to an API.

Calling every basic script an "AI agent" has become a bad habit in tech. But when you test these simple scripts on real business data and messy company systems, they break immediately.

Real value from AI agents doesn't come from a chat screen that writes a nice email or generates a SQL query. That is just a small tool that saves a few clicks.

In my work building large data systems, I have learned that real value only happens when an AI can actually finish a job, verify that...

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'You can suddenly float to the 30,000-foot level and understand how it’s all supposed to work together' — Original Mass Effect composer looks back on the 'rewarding' collaborative experience while working on the RPG

* Original Mass Effect composer Jack Wall says working on the game was a "rewarding" collaborative experience * Wall says he learned the "value" and "importance" of collaborating with other composers * He adds that working with other people can help "fulfill the mandate of having

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23andMe's Anne Wojcicki, formerly married to Google co-founder Sergey Brin, says Jensen Huang's affair shows what happens when CEOs think they are “untouchable”

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Today I learned why wind farms paint one turbine blade black

You'd think that painting a single turbine blade black is a pretty inexpensive fix for accidental bird deaths. It sounds almost too good to be true, which perhaps it is. At the Smøla wind farm in Norway, every wind turbine had one of its blade painted black for

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007 First Light composers reveal their inspirations for the game’s soundtrack — ‘Our mission we set ourselves was to give the franchise a gentle nudge into the modern day, without completely reinventing it’

* 007 First Light composers Joe Henson and Alexis Smith share how they tried to nudge the Bond franchise into "the modern day" * The composers say they didn't want to "reinvent" Bond and had a "huge" catalogue for inspiration * They also rewatched the

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'You can suddenly float to the 30,000-foot level and understand how it’s all supposed to work together' — Original Mass Effect composer looks back on the 'rewarding' collaborative experience while working on the RPG

23andMe's Anne Wojcicki, formerly married to Google co-founder Sergey Brin, says Jensen Huang's affair shows what happens when CEOs think they are “untouchable”

Today I learned why wind farms paint one turbine blade black

007 First Light composers reveal their inspirations for the game’s soundtrack — ‘Our mission we set ourselves was to give the franchise a gentle nudge into the modern day, without completely reinventing it’