The Solo Agent Is a Trap. Why Workflows Are the Real AI Superpower

Time to save your AI strategy from the “One Bot to Rule Them All” delusion. Over the last year, the tech world has fallen victim to a brilliant piece of marketing: the myth of the all-knowing, autonomous AI Agent. We’ve been told that if we just prompt a single agent hard enough, or give it a shiny corporate title like “AI Marketer” or “AI Data Analyst,” it will magically handle a complex, end-to-end business lifecycle. Somewhere between the hype cycles, we fell into a massive engineering trap. We expected