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Stop Trusting Your AI Agents to Tell You They Are "Done"

I spent three days last week watching two AI agents argue in a circle. Neither one was hallucinating. Neither one was broken. Both were being perfectly obedient to their prompts.

  • AI agents cannot reliably signal task completion.
  • Iteration count measures effort, not progress.
  • State desynchronization causes polite infinite loops.

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