Agent-based workflows and waterfall effects

Agents are the new buzzwords in AI. Can they become a fixture of the future of work?

One of the fastest-growing buzzwords (phrases?) I increasingly hear in my circles is “agent-based workflows.” Like a lot of buzzy projects, people can’t seem to fully agree what an agent-based workflow looks like exactly—other than it’s a thing that uses AI to get a complex-adjacent thing done.

The logic for agents is straightforward: rather than having …