Overview
Agentic systems can fail in several ways while appearing successful:
- They can produce the wrong artifact type.
- They can generate code that does not launch.
- They can create a visually attractive result with missing business details.
- They can choose an unexpected style, as occurred when a generated video used a cartoon treatment that was not intended.
- They can become temporarily unresponsive.
These failure patterns appear across multiple workflows and should be treated as normal operating conditions. Human quality control is therefore part of the workflow, even when the agent performs its own verification.