Deny your agent a wait tool and it'll build one — worse and costlier
rseroter · x · 2026-09-05
rseroter highlights an agent-design insight: "If you do not give an agent a way to wait, it will build one. The build is expensive, and the result is worse than the tool you declined to ship." The takeaway: provide first-class wait/async primitives instead of letting models improvise polling or sleep loops.
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