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1 day agoAI industry's size obsession is killing ROI, engineer argues
Here's the uncomfortable truth that every AI agent company is dancing around: error compounding makes autonomous multi-step workflows mathematically impossible at production scale. Let's do the math. If each step in an agent workflow has 95 percent reliability, which is optimistic for current LLMs, then five steps equal a 77 percent success rate, ten steps is a 59 percent success rate, and 20 steps is a 36 percent success rate.
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