My agent burned twelve tool calls retrying variations of the same wrong assumption before I stepped in
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Was debugging a data pipeline last week and let an agent run at it instead of doing it manually, mostly to see how far it would get on its own. First attempt failed on a permissions error. Second attempt changed the file path. Third attempt changed the path again. Fourth attempt added a sudo it did…
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- 2026-09-11 19:05 · r/AI_Agents
My agent burned twelve tool calls retrying variations of the same wrong assumption before I stepped in