Oh, you're saying something a lot narrower? Not "Agents don't work", but more like "not in THAT workflow they don't, you still need the fundamentals as well" ?

Pretty much, yeah.

To put it quite colorfully, if I were to do what the managerial class has been doing over the last years and publicly talk about my wet dreams and fantasies _to the extend they did_, I'd be in jail, on no-fly lists, registered offender and all the others lists we put people on that are a threat to society.

The agentic no-code frenzy - while having had historic predecessors - cranked what came before it to 12.

Having the thing do tool calls is neat and cool, but having an agentic mayor managing agentic workers with agentic wives and agentic dogs screams padded walls to me.