AI Agent boom at work I have been a data scientist then analyst for roughly 10+ years, gone through machine learning boom when everyone is trying to build a model when stakeholder is asking just a look up table in excel. I always tried to stay relevant to technology and new tools usually first adapting new tools(in a nerd way) for work. However, i never tried to overbuilt for the sake of looking fancy. That has been how i gained my trust from business. Now, everyone in my org is talking about ai agent. When they demo, it is mostly glorified chatbot running sql query in the backend. Even pulling data from a random sandbox tables. Management believes chatbot can answer any business problem as most demo from my peers are “pre populated samples” hard-coded (many even accidentally revealed it in screen-share..) Business side never adapted any llm solution, as they are happy with cube on excel file. The challenge is even stakeholders feel pressure from their management and have to come up with fancy AI agent.…