Most 'AI Agents' Are Just If-Statements in a Trench Coat

说明与用途

许多所谓的 AI 代理实际上是确定性流水线，导致生产环境慢、昂贵且难以调试。将其转换为线性流水线可提升速度、成本和可靠性。

问题

Developers build AI agents that claim autonomy but actually run deterministic pipelines, leading to slow, expensive, and hard-to-debug production systems.

结果

Linear pipelines outperform agent-like architectures in production by eliminating nondeterminism, reducing cost, and improving testability.

工作流

• 1. Retrieve context
• 2. Call a tool
• 3. Format response

证据

If you can draw the flowchart of what your system does before it runs, you don't have an agent. You have a pipeline.

来源

A pipeline is a fixed sequence of steps, with LLM calls at the specific points where a model genuinely adds value, and deterministic control flow that you own.

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