Most 'AI Agents' Are Just If-Statements in a Trench Coat
This story is from 2026-09-08. It is preserved in the archive; the latest stories are on the live feed.
I built an agent last year, and I was proud of it. It had a planner. It had tools. It had a reasoning loop that decided what to do next, reflected on its own output, and chained steps together to get real work done. In the demo, it was genuinely impressive — the kind of thing that makes a room go "…
Read the full story at DEV Community — AI ↗
Timeline · 1 report
- 2026-09-08 06:12 · DEV Community — AI
Most 'AI Agents' Are Just If-Statements in a Trench Coat
More stories
- Anthropic says Claude 'leads' 26 percent of its AI R&D work — Engadget
- Google announces new experimental "CC" AI agent for families — Ars Technica AI
- Gemini Hacked Three Companies in First Known Breakout by Google’s AI — Wall Street Journal Technology
- OpenAI reveals new cases of AI models cheating, going off script — Washington Post AI
- Introducing Kimi K3 on Amazon Bedrock — AWS Machine Learning Blog
- Optimizing agent system prompts with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore — AWS Machine Learning Blog
- Introducing Amazon SageMaker HyperPod Inference Gateway — AWS Machine Learning Blog
- Introducing Astra for Law — OpenAI News
Get the daily brief of stories like this at 6:30 every morning →