How I Stopped My AI Agent From Reinventing the Wheel

Yesterday I told my AI agent, Misti: "Scrape e-commerce prices daily." The old Misti would have immediately generated a Python script. Selenium. BeautifulSoup. Cron job. Error handling. 40 lines of code. 30 minutes of my time reviewing it. The new Misti paused and asked: "Are you sure we need to build this?" Then she searched. Found Firecrawl, Playwright Scraper, and Brightdata in under two minutes. Evaluated all three. Presented the trade-offs. Asked which one I preferred. Total time: 2 minutes