Day 14 – When Not To Use Agentic AI

Agentic AI should not be applied to problems that are deterministic, latency-sensitive, cost-constrained, safety-critical, or trivially simple. Agents excel when goals are fuzzy and judgment is needed, but introduce unnecessary variance, cost, and unpredictability in rule-based or real-time scenarios. A hybrid approach—deterministic systems that escalate to agents only when needed—is often the best pattern.