The conversation around Agentic AI often focuses on one goal: making agents more autonomous.
More tools. More reasoning. More planning. More independence.
It sounds like progress.
But is more autonomy always the right answer?
As software engineers, we rarely optimize for "more." We don't build distributed systems when a monolith is sufficient. We don't introduce microservices because they're fashionable. We choose architectures that balance capability with complexity.








