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November 6, 2025

What AI agents suck at right now, according to 4 founders

These souped-up bots still have a lot of failure points, say the people working with them daily

Éanna Kelly

3 min read

In recent months, tech giants OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and a host of new startups have released AI agents, designed to complete tasks independently with only minimal guidance from humans. 

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Éanna Kelly

Éanna Kelly is a contributing editor at Sifted, and writes Startup Life , a weekly newsletter on what it takes to build a startup. Follow him on X and LinkedIn

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