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Agentic AI: the failure-mode catalog every team needs
Loops, hallucinated tools, infinite retries, prompt injection, schema drift. Name them, log them, and you'll spot them in production.
Creators · Agentic AI · ~7 min read
The premise
Agent incidents fall into a small number of recurring shapes. A team that names them and logs against the names recognizes the next incident in minutes instead of days.
What AI does well here
- Emit structured logs when given a logging tool
- Follow a documented retry policy when given one
- Surface unexpected tool errors instead of swallowing them
What AI cannot do
- Recognize that it's stuck in its own loop
- Distinguish prompt injection from legitimate user input
- Diagnose its own root causes during an incident
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