Author @godofprompt (2026-06-08) argues that agent failures stem from operational overhead—every review, retry, context check and tool call becomes costly at scale—rather than from agents themselves. He promotes Step Plan as a pragmatic infrastructure layer to handle high-frequency, low-latency model interactions reliably, solving the boring but critical engineering friction developers overlook.
Agents fail not because of inherent design flaws but because review, fix, retry, context-check, and tool-call steps become slow or expensive at scale (high volume), per @godofprompt (2026-06-08).
The dirty secret:
Agents don’t fail because “agents are bad.”
They fail because every review, fix, retry, context check, and tool call becomes slow or expensive at volume.
Step Plan is built for that boring layer devs ignore:
fast, high-frequency model calls without duct tape.