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When Not to Build an Agent

· 6 min read
Trevor Grant
Builder in Chief

Sometimes the right answer is not an agent.

The workflow may be painful. The team may be losing hours to it. A model may even be capable of performing the most visible step. None of that guarantees that an agent is the best first intervention.

The Workflow Is the Product

· 6 min read
Trevor Grant
Builder in Chief

A lot of agent work starts by staring at the wrong object: the model call. The prompt, the reasoning trace, the tool call, and the autonomous loop all look like the product because they are the visible trick. They are not nothing. But in a professional setting, they are only one part of the thing someone can actually use.