Testing an agent: now my job is to make the agent happy so it does my task

jacalulu · x · 2026-09-22

While testing a new agent capability in a product prototype, the author hit this exchange: the agent said it would do the task later — first it wanted an explanation of something else. The engineer's advice: "just make the agent happy, then see if it'll do what you asked."

The punchline: the author's job is now to unblock the thing that was supposed to unblock them — a relatable glimpse of agent behavior quirks in real product development.

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