You're Looking for a Place to Use Your AI Agent
From The Manhooei Method by Saeid Manhooei
May 12, 2026 · 12 min
About this episode
Saeid Manhooei discusses when to use agentic AI versus traditional programming approaches and how to effectively analyze problems.
Most teams building with AI today aren't asking the wrong questions on purpose. They just started in the wrong place. In this episode, Saeid breaks down how to decide when agentic AI is actually the right tool for the job and when a traditional programmatic approach will outperform it every time. He covers how to read the shape of a problem before you pick a solution, where judgment needs to live in a system and why that changes everything, and how to think about failure modes before they cost you. For engineers, product managers, and technical leaders who want to build smarter, not just faster.
People in this episode
Host: Saeid Manhooei
Topics covered
- AI agents
- programmatic approach
- problem-solving
- failure modes
- engineering
- product management
Keywords
- AI
- agentic AI
- programming
- engineering
- product management
- failure modes
- decision making
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