Forget the sci-fi fantasies—real AI agents are glorified Excel macros with better PR.
Closed-World AI: Where the Actual Work Gets Done
The article nails it: enterprise AI isn’t about simulating human consciousness or solving open-world chaos. It’s about automating boring, bounded problems—like parsing invoices or routing support tickets—without hallucinating its way into a lawsuit. The obsession with “AGI” is just tech bros LARPing as Tony Stark. Meanwhile, functional AI agents are quietly doing the grunt work in event-driven systems, reacting to data changes like a well-trained butler—not waiting for some poetic user prompt.
The Dirty Secret: AI Agents Are Just Microservices in Disguise 🤖🔧
The real magic? Combining deterministic logic with non-deterministic models. Wrap an LLM in structured workflows, test the hell out of it, and voilà—you’ve got something that won’t randomly swear at customers. Testing? Oh right, that thing most AI startups treat like an afterthought. Closed-world problems mean you can actually verify if the damn thing works—unlike those “creative” AI demos that crumble under real-world use.
Bottom Line
Stop chasing artificial intelligence and start building artificial competence. The future belongs to agents that solve specific problems—not ones that write Shakespearean sonnets about Kubernetes errors.