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Ask HN: What is the main bottleneck facing Agentic AI today?

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In short

The main bottleneck facing Agentic AI is the lack of reliable and autonomous agents that can be fully trusted to execute tasks independently without human intervention, with only 10% of agents actually getting into production. The infrastructure and software development process are significant consumers of resources, and the industry needs to focus on creating more reliable and autonomous agents to overcome these challenges.

Key points

  • The main bottleneck facing Agentic AI is the lack of reliable and autonomous agents.: The main bottleneck facing Agentic AI is the lack of reliable and autonomous agents.
  • Only 10% of Agentic AI agents actually get into production.: Only 10% of Agentic AI agents actually get into production.
  • The infrastructure required for Agentic AI to thrive is missing.: The infrastructure required for Agentic AI to thrive is missing.

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Hey guys, today I read a statistic that showed that Agentic traffic surpassed human traffic on the internet and that statistic was very shocking to me. At the same time I saw another statistic that showed only 10% of agents built, actually get into production. These two statistics seemed ironic to me. So I wondered to myself what is the major bottleneck that is causing a lot of the agents that are being built not get into production and what is the infrastructure missing to make Agentic traffic to thrive even more?

the traffic is largely people leaving search for agent based research

the failure for agents to production is over hyping, they are not good when left to their own devices, humans are required in the loop

software development is the main token consumer, the models are receiving significantly more training on this task, but most production software does not need an agent within it

But there is all this rise in Agent AI startups aren't those using Agents in Production? And also surrounding human in the loop how can agents become reliable enough that humans can leave them to fully to execute on tasks completely autonomously without them in the loop?

too check-prone and it's grilling

too on-its-own and it's dangerous

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Original source: news.ycombinator.com

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