SiIicon Valley's AI agent hiccups: Wasted tokens and 'chaotic' systems

AI agents (software programs that can perform tasks automatically) are being promoted as the next major breakthrough, but companies are discovering they are unreliable and expensive to operate. The main problems include wasting tokens (units of text that AI processes, which cost money), high inference costs (the expense of running AI models), and system complexity that makes it difficult to manage multiple agents working together without burning through budgets instead of saving money.