Silent success is worse than a loud agent crash
An agent that fails loudly is annoying. An agent that says "done" while nothing ran is expensive. I've been building with AI agents near real systems, and the failure mode I worry about most isn't a crash — it's silent success. The agent returns something that looks fine. The UI says the task completed. But when you dig in, the command never ran, the wrong thing ran, or it checked its own…
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