why would I be more convinced by the agent mode output?
You wouldn’t, necessarily. Nor did I suggest that you would.
I also agree that if (AI in “agent mode”) does not have any advantages over (“tool mode” plus human agent), then there’s no reason to expect its output to be superior, though that’s completely tangential to the comment you replied to.
That said, it’s not clear to me that (AI in “agent mode”) necessarily lacks advantages over (“tool mode” plus human agent).
You wouldn’t, necessarily. Nor did I suggest that you would.
I also agree that if (AI in “agent mode”) does not have any advantages over (“tool mode” plus human agent), then there’s no reason to expect its output to be superior, though that’s completely tangential to the comment you replied to.
That said, it’s not clear to me that (AI in “agent mode”) necessarily lacks advantages over (“tool mode” plus human agent).