The Entire AI Agent Industry Might Be Building Plumbing Nobody Needs

The Billion Dollar Question Hot take: the entire AI agent industry might be building plumbing nobody needs. And we could be looking at billions of dollars wasted. Thousands of startups. Tens of thousands of engineers. Billions in VC funding. All building agentic frameworks, tool definitions, orchestration logic, retry handlers, context managers, custom loops. Thousands of lines of code just to make AI do things. Meanwhile, Claude Code and Codex already exist. They represent some of the largest AI engineering efforts on the planet. Anthropic and OpenAI have poured billions into making these agents work reliably. They can read files, run commands, search codebases, reason across complex systems, and take action. The entire agentic AI ecosystem is collectively spending billions rebuilding capabilities that already exist in two products. The Real Hard Part After building enterprise software for over two decades, here's what I realized: the hard part of AI agents was never the loop. It was