Can Agents Solve Data Scarcity?

I’m not an AI researcher, so this may be a naive question. I asked how future AI systems will learn tasks where there simply isn’t enough training data available. Someone responded that “agents will solve that problem.” I’m confused by this answer. My understanding is that agent frameworks are mostly a software layer around foundation models (planning, tool use, memory, workflow orchestration, etc.), while the actual learning still happens in the u