An agent retrying the same failed action with slightly different wording isn't really adapting.
I noticed this with a research agent last week. The first tool call failed with a permission error. It tried again with basically the same tool and the same arguments. Then it tried a third time. The reasoning looked different each time, though. Different explanation for why the next attempt might…
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- 2026-09-24 22:05 · r/AI_Agents
An agent retrying the same failed action with slightly different wording isn't really adapting.