A probabilistic agent plus deterministic tools yields a probabilistic system — no guarantee survives
blaizedsouza · x · 2026-09-20
A retweet of DominikTornow's point: hand a probabilistic agent a deterministic tool and the composition is probabilistic — none of the tool's guarantees survives the agent. In the quoted post he argues current thinking around 'software factories' is wrong: correctness doesn't come from orchestration; better workflows, skills, instructions, or more agents checking agents won't work, because a heuristic cannot certify the result of a heuristic.
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