AI Agents
Intermediate
Decide whether your task actually needs an agent
Three vendors offer you 'AI agents'.
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Before you use the output
Human review required.
AI output is a confident first draft, not a verified answer.
- The conclusion is that you need an automation. That is the correct and common answer, and accepting it saves considerable cost.
- Note the consistency argument — for scoring and qualification, variable research depth between leads is a defect, not a feature.
- If you build the automation, the one conditional needs a clear threshold. Define it explicitly.
- Keep the blast-radius analysis. You will want it when a vendor next offers you an agent for this.