Agent consulting firms charge $50,000 to debug what these three loop engineering failure modes produce when nobody addresses them upfront! → stopping condition: a terminal message ends the turn, not
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Loop engineering failure modes in agentic systems
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→ stopping condition: a terminal message ends the turn, not
> Loop engineering failure modes in agentic systems
Agent consulting firms charge $50,000 to debug what these three loop engineering failure modes produce when nobody addresses them upfront!
→ stopping condition: a terminal message ends the turn, not the task, real completion means tests pass, not the agent feeling good about its work → context rot: rotted context produces worse decisions which add more noise which rots context further, fix with compaction, file offloading, and sub-agents that return only clean results
→ tool overload: a hundred tools means the agent loses track of which one to reach for, tight, focused, non-overlapping tools
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