The real bottleneck for autonomous agents isn't raw intelligence—it's the system's inability to recognize when adaptation kicks in. Think about it: an agent can be perfectly capable, but if the framework can't detect the exact moment it needs to pivot, the whole thing breaks down. The gap isn't in the agent's thinking. It's in validation. Without a mechanism to verify state changes and trigger necessary shifts, even sophisticated logic goes nowhere. That's where most projects hit the wall.