My First Week Using Python AI Agents for Data Cleaning: What Went Wrong
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Ever spent a whole week fighting with a CSV file that just refuses to play nice? Yeah, me too. Data cleaning is one of those chores that every de dreads - missing values, weird date formats, typos, columns that mean nothing. When I first heard about Python AI agents that claim to automate this grunt work, I thought: finally, something to save us from spreadsheet hell. But after turning them loose on our company’s real-world sales data, I got hit by a reality check. Here’s what really happens when you trust AI agents to do your dirty work - and what I wish I knew before I started.