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Optimizing Agentic Workflows: When Agents Learn to Stop Thinking So Much

The most expensive sentence in agentic AI is “Let me think” Every enterprise agent has a little theatre inside it. A user asks for something routine: find a customer record, check a document, submit a form, update a profile, send a message. The agent pauses, reasons, chooses a tool, receives an observation, reasons again, chooses another tool, receives another observation, and continues until the task is finished or the budget is quietly set on fire. ...

January 30, 2026 · 16 min · Zelina