It’s easy to get excited about the power of AI agents and everything they can accomplish autonomously, saving us considerable amounts of time and effort. State-of-the-art agents are already useful in many ways, and we can imagine even more capabilities that seem just around the corner. Academic research is showing us what is possible, and it’s only a matter of time until these new capabilities appear on the market in software products.
This gap between what’s theoretically possible and what we can successfully put into production comes…