The Decomposition Problem: Why Breaking Tasks into Agent-Sized Pieces Is Harder Than It Looks

The Decomposition Problem: Why Breaking Tasks into Agent-Sized Pieces Is Harder Than It Looks Every operator who has worked with autonomous agents has experienced this: you carefully decompose a complex task into clean, discrete subtasks, hand them to an agent, and watch it reconstruct them into something that doesn't resemble your original intent. The decomposition looked logical on your whiteboard. The execution looked logical from the agent's perspective. But the output is wrong in ways that