Last Updated on September 9, 2025 by Editorial Team Author(s): Kenny Vaneetvelde Originally published on Towards AI. Control is All You Need: Why Most AI Systems & Agents Fail in the Real World, and How to Fix It If you’ve spent any time on social media the past few months, you’ve been sold a very specific dream about AI agents. You’ve seen the demos: an “autonomous” agent that builds a complete Snake game from a single prompt (Wowzers!), or an entire “research crew” that genera...