AI Agent Failure Modes Beyond Hallucination (opens in new tab)

AI can make mistakes, models hallucinate, models make stuff up - those are well-known complaints. Yet they are barely practical when it comes to agentic engineering. What does the knowledge that models make mistakes leave you with, except not trusting any output, or expecting every line to be double-checked, killing all the productivity? I do use agentic tools a lot, and I am fascinated by how much they have improved over the past half year. At the same time, I am often pissed off by how badl...