Tell me when: Building agents that can wait, monitor, and act
Modern LLM Agents can debug code, analyze spreadsheets, and book complex travel. Given those capabilities, it’s reasonable to assume that they could handle something simpler: waiting. Ask an agent to monitor your email for a colleague’s response or watch for a price drop over several days, and it will fail. Not because it can’t check email or scrape prices. It can do both. It fails because it doesn’t know when to check. Agents either give up after a few