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Stop Reaching for an AI Agent When a Cron Job Would Do

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Everyone wants an AI agent now. It's the shiny thing. But half the workflows I get asked to "agentify" would run cheaper, faster, and more reliably as a deterministic pipeline you could have written in 2015. The real skill in 2026 isn't building agents. It's knowing when not to. Let's draw the line…

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  1. 2026-09-09 12:01 · DEV Community — AI
    Stop Reaching for an AI Agent When a Cron Job Would Do

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