Agentic Workflow Failures Are a Context Problem, Not a Model Problem
FunAd6672 · reddit · 2026-09-02
The author argues that enterprise agent deployments fail not because of the model, but because agents work from process maps that were never accurate: undocumented manual reconciliations, exception paths used 20% of the time, and handoffs happening over email.
Key points:
- Agentic automation is bottlenecked by context, not capability
- Most organizations can't produce an accurate process map when asked
- The fix may lie in process intelligence (Celonis, Skan AI) rather than better agent frameworks
Bottom line: instead of making agents smarter, give them an accurate picture of how the process actually works.
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