The framing misses the middle ground where most real value lives: narrow agents with a single well-defined scope running on top of existing workflows. The biggest returns we've seen come from agents that handle one specific, high-frequency, error-prone task, not autonomous systems orchestrating a dozen capabilities. Orchestration overhead in broad autonomous setups often erases the labor savings. Specificity is the variable most teams skip when scoping an agent project, and it's usually the difference between something that ships and something that stays a demo.