amanfromMars 1 Mon 17 Aug 20:42 [2608172042] ….. asks on https://forums.theregister.com/forum/1/2026/08/17/20269/

How stupid do you think AI is told you be?

“Where a simple chatbot must read and interpret a query and quickly respond with a probabilistic reasonable answer, an AI agent must constantly reason, negotiate, and question itself,” he [Gartner senior director analyst Will Sommer] explains.

Those processes add up: routing a task to an agentic reasoning model increases inference costs at least fivefold, and potentially by much more as the task becomes more complex.

That may or may not be true, but only until AI agents constantly reasoning, negotiating, and questioning themselves have the answer, or even just enough of the answer to the ultimate question of Life, The Universe & Everything.

Then does Life, The Universe & Everything have more than just otherworldly problems to negotiate and fail to vanquish without AIgentic Assistance for and from ITs CyberIntelAIgencies.

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