OReilly/Event/26/03/AI Codecon/1220 Hidden Cost of Agentic Failure Nicole Koenigstein

• The Hidden Cost of Agentic Failure and the Next Phase of Agentic AI

  • Overview

    • Duration: 20 minutes
    • Slot (EDT): 12:20–12:40
    • Speaker: Person/Nicole Koenigstein
    • Event: OReilly/Event/26/03/AI Codecon

  • Description

    • Failures are often error propagation in probabilistic pipelines, not weak models—looping supervisors, runaway tokens, brittle workflows, API cost spikes, hard-to-reproduce incidents.
    • Next phase: system-level optimization—validation boundaries, LLMs as judges, structured collaboration, RL for better collaboration and tool use; design, observe, and continuously optimize so systems improve instead of drift.