Why AI Agents Were Doomed to Fail

(And the Meta Paper That Just Saved Them)

For the last three years, we’ve been sold a two-part dream: First, that Large Language Models would become the “brains” of a new generation of autonomous AI agents. Second, that these agents would revolutionize every industry by automating complex, multi-step tasks, from booking your travel (EVERY demo of agents shows this…) to running your marketing ca…