It was built to reply with the “best” existing answer. The one move it can’t make is the one now worth the most.
Ask an agent to price your product, and it hands you a polished version of what your competitors already do. That’s not a bug; it’s the objective working perfectly. A model is a machine for the most likely next thing, which means it drifts toward the average answer, the one everyone else’s agent is also producing. The expensive human move runs the other way. SpaceX did it with a rocket and found that 98% of the cost was due to inherited habit. Here’s why that move is now the edge, and why a faster agent makes skipping it more dangerous, not less.
