this post was submitted on 12 Jun 2026
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Like everywhere, if you look at the detail, you need experts to make the right deductions and handle things. And if you know that the whole usage of agents falls apart but for trivial things.
Average functional AI agent workflow goes something like this.
User prompt: Water the plants at 15:00 on days when it hasn't rained.
Agent procedure:
User seems happy with this and goes to work.
User returns from work at 18:00 to discover that the garden is flooded because the sprinkler has been turned on for three hours. All the plants are dead. At the end of the month, the user receives a bill from the AI company for consuming 1 million tokens and a water bill that is double what it normally is.
And on top of this, this request would be an extremely lightweight load on a very high level language or tool instead of this needlessly wasteful usage.