Your agent's reliability problem isn't the model — it's the missing harness
bgoncalves · x · 2026-10-05
- data4sci's take: most agent reliability issues come from letting the model pick its own tools and trust its own numbers. The model should SUGGEST; a harness should DECIDE.
- bgoncalves agrees — "the model is rarely the problem, the missing harness is" — and is running an Oct 31 workshop covering permissioned tools, guardrails, and recovery in plain Python.
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