The AI agent development market has a vendor quality problem. Not because most vendors are dishonest. Because the barrier to calling yourself an AI agent development company is essentially zero, and the market moved fast enough that genuine production experience is concentrated in a small percentage of the firms competing for business. The result: companies…
Everyone’s offering AI agent development services right now. The problem is that “AI agent” means something different to almost everyone selling it. To some vendors it means a chatbot with a few extra steps. To others it means a fully autonomous system running multi-step workflows without human involvement. The gap between those two things is…
Managing AI employees is nothing like managing humans. And yet most teams treat it like it is. They deploy an AI agent, give it a vague brief, check in occasionally, and wonder why the outputs are inconsistent or the errors are piling up quietly in the background. The mental model is wrong. AI employees don’t…
The term is everywhere right now. AI employees. Digital workers. Autonomous agents. Every vendor in the space is using a slightly different phrase to describe roughly the same thing — software that can take on work that used to require a human. The problem is the framing. “AI employee” implies a lot of things that…
I’ve spent the last several months building with these tools. Testing them, breaking them, shipping with some and abandoning others halfway through. Here’s what nobody tells you upfront: most of the comparisons you’ll find online were written by people who read the documentation, not people who actually tried to ship something with a deadline breathing…
