The Agent Was Fast. It Was Confident. It Was Wrong.

The agent skipped the steps it was given. The output arrived faster. It was wrong. And the total compute cost of recovering from that shortcut was higher than following the instructions would have been. This is not a prompt engineering problem.

Author: Vaibhav Bhardwaj — Published: Thu Mar 05 2026

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