Each week I see a new “autonomous agent” demo in my feed, and each week it seems to be the same thing: a loop that calls an LLM, does not check anything important, and runs until the API key screams.

We need to talk about this. Because most of what people are calling "agentic workflows" are just while loops with vibes.

The Pattern Is Everywhere

You've seen the code. Maybe you've written it. I know I have.

It appears as shown in the image below: