O’Reilly Media – Beyond “Prompt and Pray”
TL;DR: Enterprise AI teams are discovering that purely agentic approaches (dynamically chaining LLM calls) don’t deliver the reliability needed for production systems.The prompt-and-pray model—where business logic lives entirely in prompts—creates systems that are unreliable, inefficient, and impossible to maintain at scale.A shift toward structured automation, which separates conversational ability from business logic execution, is needed…