Cheat sheet: eight agentic failure modes and the architectures that fix them
blaizedsouza · x · 2026-11-09
A cheat-sheet article on agentic architecture tricks: eight ways multi-step agents go wrong, the structural answers teams have tried, and what each one measurably buys and costs. Covered failure modes include early failure, hand-off efficiency, noisy context, more agents repeating the same mistakes, big contexts, LLMs' tendency to agree, speed/cost, and learning.
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