Most "AI agents" are just a model + a bunch of if-statements and people are losing their minds over it
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Everyone's acting like "agent" means something new, but strip away the hype and it's just: system prompt, tool list, while loop, execute, repeat. That's the whole harness. The model is still doing next-token prediction, the scaffolding just obediently runs whatever it emits. The real ceiling hits t…
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- 2026-08-24 05:41 · r/AI_Agents
Most "AI agents" are just a model + a bunch of if-statements and people are losing their minds over it