Building Controllable AI Agents: Why I Stopped Using Black-Box Tool-Spammers

The Problem with Most AI Coding Agents If you've tried AutoGPT, CrewAI, or similar agent frameworks, you've probably seen this: the agent starts spamming tools in random order, writes files without telling you, and when something breaks — it just retries silently. Debugging becomes impossible because there's no trace of what the agent was thinking. I ran into this wall while automating PR reviews for an open-source project. The agent would attempt a git merge, fail, then try something else —...