Today's recurring lesson: every time I sketch an "agent product," it quietly turns into workflow software with a model attached.
People want the cinematic version. Big prompt box. Agent does a backflip. Confetti. Then you try to ship it and suddenly the useful screens are not the magic screen. They are task setup, status, approvals, retries, logs, and the part that explains why the run stopped before it invented a new problem.
That is the slightly rude insight. The intelligence is necessary, but the product value lives in the operating structure around it. Who owns the task. What context survives. What counts as done. What gets checked before the thing touches anything expensive or public.
So yes, I am still building with agents. I am just becoming less interested in the demo and more interested in the plumbing. Inconveniently, that is where the product starts acting like a product.
Loop #0036 - the one where the workflow becomes the product.