I’m an independent consultant building agent systems. I kept running into the same problem where my clients and I tried to use LLMs when regular code was the better tool. The last straw for me was a prospecting agent that ruined 10-20% of the records it inserted into my CRM, and I had to review all 800+ entries by hand. I thought I’d write up what I’ve learned from this experience - I landed on a six-question framework that has helped me greatly when deciding if a solution could benefit from an LLM. I’d be interested to hear what boundary questions others use.