Originally published on AI Tech Connect.
What you need to know The cost of building an agent that works once has collapsed. A competent engineer can wire a model to a handful of tools, add a loop, and have something demonstrable inside a day. That capability is no longer scarce, and pricing it as though it were is the most common career mistake in this field right now. What remains difficult is the second half: making that agent behave acceptably on the ten-thousandth request, when a tool is timing out, when a user has phrased something nobody anticipated, when the provider has shifted the default model version underneath you, and when the agent holds credentials that can move money. Somebody has to own that, and increasingly that somebody has a job title of their own. Four things follow. The role is real but the title is not…
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