Win what? The race to the bottom always has this competitive language.

“If we ban CFCs now the Chinese will win!”

“If we ban chemical weapons, nuclear weapons, etc etc our enemies will triumph! They won’t stop!”

“If we switch to biodegradeable plastic then our rivals will have an advantage.”

“If we dont externalize the costs to our population, then they will, and then will win!”

I think workflows can do the job agents do, 20x cheaper and more predictably and safely. They can completely displace agents, just as HFCs displaced CFCs and then we were able to ban CFCs and phase them out through international COOPERATION. The language of COOPERATION is what saves us vs COMPETITION is all about cutting corners and externalizing costs. Google the Montreal Protocol, Geneva Conventions, Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty, Unleaded Gasoline etc etc.

Agents have got to be marginalized. They are just popular because the labs need to make a ton of money for their investors and recoup their massive spending on training models.