The agents that fail quietly are worse than the ones that fail loudly
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Noticed a pattern across a few different agent setups I've built or debugged: the failures that cost the most time aren't crashes or errors, they're agents that keep working, keep calling tools, keep producing plausible-looking output, while making zero actual progress. A retry loop that never esca…
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- 2026-08-19 15:48 · r/AI_Agents
The agents that fail quietly are worse than the ones that fail loudly