Intro
When someone wants to automate a boring and repetitive task, like triaging support emails, or renaming files the instinct now is "I'll build an agent for this."
What's crazy is, two years ago, you would have written a 30-line script and called it a day.
Today, agents are the new fun thing to build but people seem to have forgotten that a plain script can handle a lot of work many are building agents to do so knowing which one to chose to achieve a task will save you time, money and a lot of debugging. In this blog, I'll walk you through making an agent vs. script decision with an automated task.
We'll build on this task three ways to figure out which one you actually need. Let's review the task below:
