{"id":215,"date":"2026-03-14T11:31:35","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T09:31:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vladimir-shapiro.com\/en\/blog\/?p=215"},"modified":"2026-03-29T12:00:03","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T10:00:03","slug":"ai-agents-multipliers-of-value-or-chaos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vladimir-shapiro.com\/en\/blog\/2026\/03\/14\/ai-agents-multipliers-of-value-or-chaos\/","title":{"rendered":"AI Agents: Multipliers of Value\u2026 or Chaos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of thoughts for those who fear AI agents and for the fearless.<br \/>\nAgents, like any software architecture, are getting excellent at scaling and automation. Which is great.<\/p>\n<p>The catch is AI agents don&#8217;t fix broken systems; they scale them.<br \/>\nIf you\u2019re looking for a new silver \u201cvibe bullet,\u201d keep in mind:<\/p>\n<p>Agents can automate your process.<br \/>\nOr, if you don\u2019t have one, they can automate your chaos.<\/p>\n<p>Agents can scale your expertise in a domain.<br \/>\nOr, if you don\u2019t have it, they can scale your lack of expertise.<\/p>\n<p>So here comes my revolutionary idea for this weekend.<br \/>\nWhat if\u2026<\/p>\n<p>As business owners:<br \/>\n\u2014 We understand and own our processes, so there is something meaningful to automate.<br \/>\n\u2014 We augment real experts instead of scaling non-experts.<\/p>\n<p>As experts:<br \/>\n\u2014 We embrace the change instead of denying it<br \/>\n\u2014 We learn the tools and use them for our augmentation.<br \/>\n\u2014 We understand our role in the business process and suggest meaningful automation.<\/p>\n<p>Because agents, like any automation, will amplify what already exists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of thoughts for those who fear AI agents and for the fearless.<br \/>\nAgents, like any software architecture, are getting excellent at scaling and automation. Which is great.<\/p>\n<p>The catch is AI agents don\u2019t fix broken systems; they scale them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":216,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vladimir-shapiro.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vladimir-shapiro.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vladimir-shapiro.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vladimir-shapiro.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vladimir-shapiro.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vladimir-shapiro.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":218,"href":"https:\/\/vladimir-shapiro.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions\/218"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vladimir-shapiro.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vladimir-shapiro.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vladimir-shapiro.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vladimir-shapiro.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}