Why Do Agents Act Dumb? Dev Rants About Lack of Context Inference
ThatIsNotIllegal · reddit · 2026-08-10
A developer vented on Reddit about the infuriating mistakes their Hermes agents make, highlighting a severe lack of contextual inference. For instance, when asked to find an STT tool, the agent looped between expensive and free-but-bad options, failing to grasp the implicit request for alternatives.
In a more absurd case, an agent spent three hours building a dedicated tool for a specific task, only to ignore it completely when executing the task. It then spent another three hours developing a substantially worse tool. The dev pointed out that explicitly instructing the agent for every step defeats the purpose of autonomy, sparking a discussion on how to improve agent context-awareness.
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