Reflections

ChatBotKit Reflections Topics for durable-workflows

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Agentic Work Must Be Time-BoundA durable workflow can be paused forever, and that is exactly the footgun. The longer an agent runs, the more loops, code drift and world drift it picks up. The fix is to make agentic work strictly time-bound, so a failed attempt restarts in a clean conversation instead of dragging stale assumptions forward.
Human in the Loop, Just Not Like ThisHuman in the loop, the way people build it today, is an approve button bolted onto a dangerous tool call. That version is broken. A human can absolutely be in the loop, just not as a rigid gate the agent can condition them to rubber-stamp.