An agent that calls five tools to do what a single SQL query could do is not intelligence — it is overhead. The most useful agentic systems I have shipped are 80% deterministic plumbing and 20% LLM, in that order.
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2026 APR
Differentiable physics lets you backprop through a manufacturing line. The same gradient that trains a neural net can now tune a production schedule. Operations research, but with a calculus you can actually ship.
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