Agents Are Not Enough

Published
Source
arXiv
Paper number
002
Field
Agents
arXiv ID
2412.16241

Key points

  • The core claim is that stronger generative models alone are not enough to make agents effective or sustainable in real user workflows.
  • From a historical perspective, earlier agent systems stalled or failed because autonomy, context, trust, coordination, and user representation were harder than the agent metaphor suggests.
  • Structurally, the proposed ecosystem separates executing agents, user-representing Sims, and user-facing assistants instead of forcing a single model component to handle everything.
  • In industry terms, useful agent systems need not only autonomous action loops but also persistent user context, workflow coordination, and human-facing control interfaces.

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