When Agents Fail (and Why That's Normal)

Agents don't raise their hand and say 'I'm not sure about this.' They deliver wrong answers with the same tone and confidence as right ones. Here's why — and what to do about it. · ~3 min

Agents that get stuck doing the same thing over and over. Tasks that burn twenty steps when one would do. Results that work perfectly Tuesday and fail completely Wednesday. Welcome to the operational realities. · ~3 min

Agents are powerful tools, not universal solutions. Some tasks demand human judgment, irreversible decisions deserve human hands, and novel situations need human creativity. Here's the boundary. · ~3 min

Every failure mode in this chapter has a human equivalent. Agents are new colleagues — capable, sometimes wrong, always worth checking on high-stakes work. Here's how to set healthy expectations. · ~3 min