AI agents make great teammates, but don't let them code alone - here's why

Bill Oxford/Getty Images Agentic AI may offer compelling productivity benefits, but it still falls flat when it comes to the heavy lifting of day-to-day operations and technology development. Still, technology leaders and proponents see great advantage in putting agents to work in many key areas of their businesses. At the end of last year, Carnegie-Mellon University researchers released details on the performance of a mock company they assembled running entirely on AI agents. The experiment continues, but to date, the performance of the company, called TheAgentCompany, has been subpar, suggesting that agents aren't quite ready to run completely on their own on a daily basis. Also: Can you build a billion-dollar business with only AI agents (yet)? The agents, powered by both closed API-based and "open-weights" language models, were capable of completing a maximum of 30% of their tasks autonomously, but that's about it. "This paints a nuanced picture on task automation with LM agen ... Read full article.