Most 'autonomous' AI tools are actually brittle workflows that require constant human oversight and manual interventions.
Real autonomy in AI tools should involve making decisions independently, handling failures, adapting to new scenarios, working in real-world environments, and running over time.
Current 'autonomous' tools lack the ability to recover from bad inputs, adjust plans on-the-fly, and operate without human intervention, leading to fragility and inefficiency.
To achieve true autonomy, AI tools should focus on resilience, decision-making, error recovery, and minimal supervision, rather than just hiding human involvement behind a user interface.