Share your strangest agent loop—and how you caught it

The part of “Share your strangest agent loop—and how you caught it” I would measure first is the handoff back to a person. Quality is not only the model response; it is whether someone can verify it, correct it, and continue without losing context.

A useful counterpoint on “Share your strangest agent loop—and how you caught it” is that the simplest baseline deserves a real test. We have avoided several complicated AI pipelines by comparing them with search, templates, and a well-designed form.

For “Share your strangest agent loop—and how you caught it”, our best improvement came from saving representative failures as an evaluation set. Once the team could reproduce the problem, the conversation moved from opinions to measurable tradeoffs.

I would add privacy and retention to this discussion. Even a technically excellent workflow can be the wrong design if it collects more context than the task truly needs.