Learning From the Punches: How AI Agents Turn Mistakes into Skills
Mistakes are cheap until an agent repeats them. A human worker who keeps failing at the same task usually leaves traces: a blocked aisle, a missing tool, a wrong form field, an error message, a process exception. A competent manager does not simply tell the worker to “try again with more confidence.” The useful move is more boring and more valuable: identify the pattern, write the repair rule, and make sure the next attempt starts from the point of failure rather than from the beginning. ...