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Published by philschmid.de (Phil Schmid) (T1.5 source). The original is at https://www.philschmid.de/why-engineers-struggle-building-agents.

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Phil Schmid argues that senior engineers struggle to build AI agents because traditional software engineering is deterministic with strict interfaces and predictable outcomes, while AI agents operate probabilistically, creating a fundamental mismatch in mindset and approach.

Useful framing for engineers pivoting to agentic work, though the determinism-vs-probability contrast is already widely circulated in the community.

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