Don't Rush to Agents

Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Your spouse is halfway through the IKEA build when you walk in with the power drill, and you already know how it ends: the synthetic wood splits, because a drill was never the right tool for that shelf. Most companies reach for an AI agent the same way, skipping the one step that tells them what they actually need. Before you spend a dollar on AI, can you actually map the problem you are trying to solve? Most teams cannot, and that is exactly why they overbuild. You know your system better than anyone, right up until you have to explain it to a technology partner and the words stop coming. This episode of We Are the Machines is about mapping your problem before you buy the solution. Dr. Deitra Sawh walks through three ways to read your own systems, the real line between an automation and an agent, and why an agent welded into your infrastructure is so hard to pull back out. You will leave able to tell when you need a thinking machine, and when you just need a few well-defined steps.