Treating "a human rejected this" as a different failure mode than "the agent broke" — turns out that distinction matters a lot in production
Summary
A discussion on how treating 'human rejection' as a separate failure mode from 'agent malfunction' significantly impacts the reliability and debugging of AI agents in production.
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