Deterministic automation
Rule-based, reliable. A script runs on a schedule: fetch new data from API → process → update dashboard.
Feasible for: API-driven dashboards with stable data sources.
**This works and is appropriate** for production systems.
AI-driven automation
AI decides what to fetch, how to process it, and what to show.
Complex, unreliable, and hard to debug when it breaks, which it will.
**Warning:** tools like OpenClaw are popular but very insecure. They give AI agents unrestricted system access.