Open any 'agentic AI' repo trending on GitHub this month and you'll find the same shape: a while loop, a tool-calling wrapper, a retry policy, and a system prompt that says 'you are an autonomous agent.' Strip the prompt out and what's left is a script. A good script, sometimes — but a script. It runs the same way today as it will next month, making the same mistakes in the same places, because nothing about running it changes what it knows. That's not a controversial observation in private, ...