Why We Stopped Using the Mathematics That Works

Someone asked a good question. I&rsquo;d written a post arguing that what the industry calls &ldquo;AI agents&rdquo; are flowcharts with good marketing, and that the mathematics to do better has existed since the 1960s. A commenter on LinkedIn replied: &ldquo;So why did it stop being widely used?&rdquo; I sat with this for a day. It deserved a proper answer, not least because I&rsquo;d spent a…