paddo.dev: Boring Agents Ship — Production Agents Are Simpler, Dumber, and More Useful Than Demo Agents
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paddo.dev's May 1 analysis argues that the agents actually running in production are unglamorous automation — ticket sweepers, monitoring summaries, triage bots — not the sophisticated multi-step coding agents dominating discourse. The piece contends that agent discourse is disproportionately focused on coding agents, while the quietly deployed ones are simpler tools that handle mundane but high-value operational tasks with reliable, narrow scope.