Stop Building Agentic Workflows for Everything | HackerNoon

Not every workflow needs an AI agent, many tasks are better solved with deterministic automation.
Use agentic systems only when reasoning, ambiguity, or decision making is required.
Misusing agents leads to higher cost, latency, and reduced reliability.
The best architectures are hybrid systems: automation for execution, agents for intelligence.
Good engineering is about choosing the right approach, not the most advanced one.