Is a faster agent a better agent? A 28.8s run that never calculated the price
WirelessLife · x · 2026-10-02
Referencing Kinfey's 28.8-second agent run that looked like a win but never actually calculated the price, the author argues for drawing a hard boundary in agent design: LLMs for open-ended judgment, code for permissions, bounded decisions everywhere else. The open question: where does that boundary sit in your stack?
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