The claim of Zapier having '800+ AI agents' is deemed absurd, implying the marketing of workflows as AI agents.
Real AI agents are not mere parsers but sophisticated models capable of making decisions in real-time.
An AI agent orchestrates decisions, handles errors, and adapts to unpredictable situations with dynamic decision-making.
Traditional workflows lack the thinking and adaptability inherent in true AI agents.
Language models like LLMs can be taught to return structured data like JSON, enabling dynamic decision-making.
Teaching LLMs to output structured data in JSON format allows for more intelligent interactions and reasoning.
The 'Read File' tool pattern exemplifies the interaction between developers, models, and structured data output by LLMs.
True agency in AI models emerges when they can handle dynamic and unpredictable scenarios, not just follow predefined workflows.
Contrasting workflows with agents, it's emphasized that workflows follow a predetermined structure, while agents exhibit adaptive reasoning.
Selling '800 agents' is akin to marketing workflows, as a real agent would be a single model with adaptive tools rather than multiple individual agents.
The recommendation is to accurately label workflows as workflows to avoid misleading marketing claims in the AI space.